Letter from Harriet Martineau, Sydenham, [England], to Mary Anne Estlin, August 21

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Title:
Letter from Harriet Martineau, Sydenham, [England], to Mary Anne Estlin, August 21
Description:
Harriet Martineau writes to Mary Anne Estlin in regards to hearing Mr. Pillsbury's talk on "Mary and her father." She writes about the Anthony Burns kidnapping case and remarks that "Mr. P did not sleep a wink-neither did I." She writes that slavery is "deteriorating the national character visibly & rapidly; & unless we can give their pride & their understandings a shock of enlightenment now about the sympathetic alliance between the South & the despots of Europe I fear that irreparable mischief will be done, & the deterioration become past retrieval." She inquires into her and her father's health.
Author:
Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876
Addressee:
Estlin, Mary Anne, 1820-1902
Date:
[ca. August 21, 1832–August 21, 1867]
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
Fugitive slaves--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
Antislavery movements--Lectures and lecturing--United States--History--19th century
Women social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Meetings--United States--History--19th century
Fugitive slaves--Legal status, laws, etc--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Great Britain
Fugitive slaves--United States
Women social reformers
Women abolitionists
Antislavery movements--United States
Lectures and lecturing
Women social reformers--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
Meetings
Fugitive slaves--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States
Estlin, Mary Anne, 1820-1902
Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876
Burns, Anthony, 1834-1862
Pillsbury, Parker, 1809-1898
Estlin, J. B. (John Bishop), 1785-1855
Places:
United Kingdom
England
Extent:
1 leaf (1 p.) ; 26 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2z10zb91f
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
Sydenham, [England]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Identifier:
5136989
Call #:
MS B.1.6 v.4, p.2
Barcode:
39999085504908