Letter from James Miller M'Kim, Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania], to Mary Anne Estlin, [1856] March 11

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Title:
Letter from James Miller M'Kim, Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania], to Mary Anne Estlin, [1856] March 11
Description:
James Miller McKim writes to Mary Anne Estlin in regards to information he obtained from encyclopedias on the national history of the tomato, sweet potato and lima bean. He writes a story involving Mrs. Motts. He writes about Mary Anne's "great sorrow." He speaks of her father and says, "He was a man finely endowed of rare attainment of lofty excellence: but in regarding yourself as having been a mere appendange moving to his impulse & reflecting his light--for this seems to be your estimate of yourself. You do not 'judge righteous judgment nor..represent the facts'; on the contrary you have and have had a distinct and independent existence of your own: a character of your own: an experience, attainments, talents of your own. These are such...for happiness and usefulness..you are now careful: happiness will come in due time. When your nervous system and bodily machinery in general shall have received their normal condition you will feel differently on this."
Author:
M'Kim, J. Miller (James Miller), 1810-1874
Addressee:
Estlin, Mary Anne, 1820-1902
Date:
[March 11, 1856]
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Abolitionists--England--19th century--Correspondence
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--Great Britain--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Religious aspects--Christianity--United States--History--19th century
Women social reformers--England--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--England--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Great Britain
Antislavery movements--United States
Christianity
Women social reformers
Women abolitionists
Estlin, Mary Anne, 1820-1902
M'Kim, J. Miller (James Miller), 1810-1874
Estlin, J. B. (John Bishop), 1785-1855
Places:
United Kingdom
England
Extent:
1 leaf (6 p.) ; 21 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2z10zb49f
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Place of origin:
Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
The last part of this letter is ripped off making it incomplete.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
5126319
Call #:
MS A.7.3 p.109
Barcode:
39999085504858