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Letter from Maria Weston Chapman, Boston, [Mass.], to Debora Weston, April 18th, [1839]
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title
Letter from Maria Weston Chapman, Boston, [Mass.], to Debora Weston, April 18th, [1839]
description
Holograph.
date
["[April 18, 1839]"]
year
1839
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
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No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
3132901
creators
Weston, Debora, 1814-
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Anti-Slavery Collection
subjects
Abolitionists--Newspapers
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence
Abolitionists
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
Weston, Debora, 1814-
Weston, Lucia, 1822-1861
Emerson, John F.
Laugel, Elizabeth Bates Chapman, b. 1831
May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871
Rodman, Samuel
Abolitionist
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society
Grimké, Angelina Emily, 1805-1879
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
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Boston
Massachusetts
North and Central America
Suffolk (county)
United States
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Correspondence
Manuscripts
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Text
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United States
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Massachusetts
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Suffolk
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Boston
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1
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1 leaf (4 p.) ; 12 5/8 x 7 7/8 in.
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yes
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42.35
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-71.05
notes
Holograph.
On pages 1-3 of the manuscript, there is an unsigned letter presumably from Maria Weston Chapman to Debora Weston. Chapman writes: "Things never looked better to my mind. ...While this unnatural union...lasted, I was dull & idle but my time cometh yea now is. Oh that wicked National--that vile branch of theirs, their vile agents? Oh that throatcutting piece of business the Abolitionist!" John A. Collins told Maria W. Chapman about the goodness of the New Bedford meeting. Chapman praises Debora Weston's work in the women's society there. Chapman is extremely anxious to get into her hands a letter owned by Mr. John Emerson, which apparently reveals intrigues to break up the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. She wants to lend this letter to "that incredulous heathen Sam J. May--that dear brother Gerritt Smith" and others. One of the new agents has just sent in $100 for Worcester County. Debora Weston may show Angelina [Grimke] Weld's letter to whom she likes. Chapman comments: "If she will do such things, I don't care if I see it in print." She tells Debora Weston to "ask Ben or Sam Rodman to plank over a hundred dollars," the sum to be quadrupled in Boston through the fair.
On page three, there is a separate note from Lucia Weston to Debora Weston, dated Boston, [April] 18th, 1839. Lucia Weston is staying in Boston, "attending to Lizzy's [Elizabeth Bates Chapman Laugel's] studies." She gives family news. She hopes that Debora Weston "will be able to get that letter of [John F.] Emersons, we long to have hold of it."
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Boston, [Mass.]
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