Letter from Sarah Moore Grimkè, Amesbury, [Massachusetts], to Mary S. Parker, 1837 July 11

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Sarah Moore Grimkè, Amesbury, [Massachusetts], to Mary S. Parker, 1837 July 11
Description:
On the first sheet, this letter, written by Sarah Moore Grimkè to Mary S. Parker, goes from pages 1-3 and continues into the second sheet. In this letter, Sarah writes her views on the Province of women. She writes, "For examining this important subject I shall depend solely on the Bible to designate the sphere of woman because I believe almost every thing that has been written on this subject has been the result of the opinions of man formed without reference to the simple truths developed in the scriptures." She discusses her views on the differences between Adam and Eve and writes, "They both fell from innocence & consequently from happiness but not from equality." There is a separate letter on the last page of the first sheet written from Caroline Chamberlain to the Grimke Sisters dated June 30th, 1837 in Cambridgeport, requesting that they address the Cambridgeport Female Anti-Slavery Society on "the subject of slavery." She also adds that the Cambridgeport Female Moral Reform Society "are desirious that you should address them about the same time."
Addressee:
Parker, Mary S.
Author:
Grimké, Sarah, 1792-1873
Date:
July 11, 1837
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Women abolitionists--United States--History--19th century--Correspondence
Women social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Societies, etc--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Lectures and lecturing--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Meetings--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Christianity--United States--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--United States
Women social reformers--United States
Women's rights--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Societies
Lectures and lecturing
Meetings
Christianity--United States
Cambridgeport Female Anti-Slavery Society
Cambridgeport Female Moral Reform Society
Grimké, Angelina Emily, 1805-1879
Grimké, Sarah, 1792-1873
Extent:
1 leaf (8 p.) ; 25 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2z10z0793
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Place of origin:
Amesbury, [Massachusetts]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Date is written over in pencil lightly.
Identifier:
5114145
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.6, p.54-55
Barcode:
39999085427803