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Holograph, signed.
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7s75fz51r
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Letter from Mary Carpenter, Bristol, [England], to Maria Weston Chapman, Mar[ch] 19, 1848
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1
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7s75fz51r
contentType
document
stage
normalized
title
Letter from Mary Carpenter, Bristol, [England], to Maria Weston Chapman, Mar[ch] 19, 1848
description
Holograph, signed.
date
["March 19, 1848"]
year
1848
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
3133365
creators
Carpenter, Mary, 1807-1877
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
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
Carpenter, Mary, 1807-1877
Palfrey, John Gorham, 1796-1881
Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
subjectsGeographic
Boston
Massachusetts
North and Central America
Suffolk (county)
United States
genreBasic
Correspondence
Manuscripts
typeOfResource
Text
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
county
Suffolk
city
Boston
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pageCount
1
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extent
3 leaves (11 p.) ; 7 7/8 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
schema:longitude
-71.05
notes
Holograph, signed.
In this letter, Mary Carpenter refers to "the mischance of our Bristol boxes." She is pleased that William Lloyd Garrison would like to have one of her drawings. She asks Maria Weston Chapman to choose the most beautiful and placid drawing for him. Carpenter comments about William Lloyd Garrison: "I greatly value his friendship, & esteem it a privilege to be personally acquainted with a devoted & earnest a servant of his Lord." She hopes Maria W. Chapman will see Bristol before she goes to London and the continent. She expresses admiration for Elihu Burritt. Carpenter says about Elihu Burritt: "I have seen nothing in his writings of compromising character..." She says that "'his still, small voice' has united in a League of Brotherhood 20,000 English with as many Americans." She refers to "the unhappy proceedings about the printing press, etc. & the separation of the Liberty party from the old Abolitionists," but which Carpenter can form no opinion. Carpenter cannot condemn Elihu Burritt "solely because he lectured for Liberty Party." The English regard abolitionists as all those who exert themselves for the abolition of slavery. She mentions especially Dr. [John Gorham] Palfrey. Carpenter draws an analogy between Unitarians who hold other Christians as unprincipled and abolitionists who suppose people to be unprincipled because they have not separated from the constitution. Carpenter is "glad to live at" a period which will be "a world era." She comments on the recent French revolution and the signs of "free spiritual life" in Italy, Austria, and Russia.
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Bristol, [England]
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7s75fz51r
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document
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1
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0
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photo
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