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    "title": "Letter from Emma Perkins Forbes, [Milton, Massachusetts], to Maria Weston Chapman, 1841 Dec[ember] 27",
    "description": "Emma Perkins Forbes writes to Maria Weston Chapman in regards to giving Maria $100 instead of the enclosed ten if she could, but that she cannot join her in her public interests. She reads and hears little on the subject of abolition, although she loves \"a black face..indeed my individual sympathies are stronger with them.\" She has a distate for public life, is a \"perfect fool about politics,\" and has \"a holy horror of societies.\" Although she always responds to the writings of Dr. William Ellery Channing, she cannot go \"hand in hand\" with Maria or Mrs. Eliza Lee Follen or Susan Cabot. She mentions a last visit to her childhood home in Pearl St, the illness and death of her aunt Perkins, and other happenings. She comments on Maria's harmony of interests with her sisters and husband. She signs the letter with her initals. Part of the letter seems to be missing.",
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        "Women abolitionists--United States--History--19th century--Correspondence",
        "Women social reformers--United States--History--19th century",
        "Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence",
        "Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century",
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