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Holograph, signed.
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qz20v9001
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Letter from Mary Botham Howitt, Clapton, [London, England], to Maria Weston Chapman, Sep. 2, [1847]
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qz20v9001
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title
Letter from Mary Botham Howitt, Clapton, [London, England], to Maria Weston Chapman, Sep. 2, [1847]
description
Holograph, signed.
date
["[September 2, 1847]"]
year
1847
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
3133813
creators
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham), 1799-1888
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Anti-Slavery Collection
subjects
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
Briggs, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1804-1877
Saunders, John, 1811-1895
Wright, Henry Clarke, 1797-1870
Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham), 1799-1888
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
National anti-slavery standard
subjectsGeographic
Boston
Massachusetts
North and Central America
Suffolk (county)
United States
genreBasic
Correspondence
Manuscripts
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Text
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
county
Suffolk
city
Boston
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1
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extent
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 7 1/8 x 4 1/2 in. + 1 envelope (3 1/8 x 4 7/8 in.)
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yes
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sf268508b
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ht24xg10q
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42.35
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-71.05
notes
Holograph, signed.
Mary Botham Howitt thanks Maria Weston Chapman for her kind letters. Mary B. Howitt refers to a "bitterly unkind" article in the National Anti-Slavery Standard. Howitt said: "That article brought with it sleepless nights & cost me tears." Although the article was written by Mr. Briggs, the author of Harry Franco, Mary B. Howitt imagines that "the animus of that article proceeds from this country---from the malicious, bad people in the People's Journal, who are doing all they can to ruin us entirely." [Charles Frederick Briggs was the author of The Adventures of Harry Franco, 1939.] Howitt especially mentions John Dix, known in America by the name of John Dix Ross, "an unfortunate drunkard & thief but who is allied with Mr. [John] Saunders against us & who has attempted to cast a stigma on my character respecting an article on Lowell which I sent to the People's Journal ...He it is, I suspect, who has been the prime mover in this." Mary B. Howitt is glad to receive the memoir from Abby Kelley Foster. The short account, which Mary B. Howitt was allowed to draw up from Henry C. Wright's memoir, is read here with pleasure. Mary B. Howitt reflects on the difference between the English and the better Americans, who are "incredibly attractive to me."
Includes an envelope with the delivery address: Maria Weston Chapman, Boston, United States. And a notation: "Paid. By Steamer Britannia."
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Clapton, [London, England]
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qz20v9001
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