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    "title": "Rough draft of letter from Caroline Weston, Boston, Mass, to Henry Grafton Chapman and Robert R. Chapman, Dec. 27th, 1839",
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        "Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882",
        "Chapman, Henry Grafton, 1804-1842",
        "Chapman, Robert R."
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    "collections": [
        "Anti-Slavery Collection"
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    "subjects": [
        "Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century",
        "Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence",
        "Antislavery movements--United States",
        "Women abolitionists--United States",
        "Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882",
        "Chapman, Henry Grafton, 1804-1842",
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        "Holograph, signed.",
        "Caroline writes to an unnamed gentleman, presumably Henry Grafton Chapman, regarding a board bill owed to a Mr. Bailey, now deceased. Several words and sentences have been crossed out indicating that it is a rough draft of a letter.",
        "On verso, there is an unfinished, rough draft of a letter by Maria Weston Chapman to \"Dear Friend & Brother Chapman,\" presumably Robert R. Chapman. Maria is responding to Robert's letter dated Dec. 19, 1839, Call No. Ms.A.9.2 v.12, p.123."
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