Letter from Eliza Fuller Gill, Fitchburg, [Massachusetts], to Maria Weston Chapman, 1839 April 28

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Title:
Letter from Eliza Fuller Gill, Fitchburg, [Massachusetts], to Maria Weston Chapman, 1839 April 28
Description:
Eliza Fuller Gill writes to Maria Weston Chapman in regards to sympathizing with Maria on recent trials. She writes, "these movements have made husband and myself more thorough garrisonites than ever ." She plans on bringing the subjects of Maria's letter before her society. Ministerial influence in Fitchburg is against reforms. She writes that she does not enjoy going to church because "our children should thus constantly listen to such conscience searing sentiments. That my very dear brother..should join the crusade against Garrison, is painful." In the same letter, on May 25, she writes of failed attempts to bring up the subjects of Maria's letter at her society's meetings. Soon after the rupture occassioned by the "Fitchburg Resolutions" her society voted to take $12 worth of the "Liberator" and to send an expression of confidence and sympathy for its Editor. She wishes Maria to talk to Garrison "for a Dialogue on a department of Women's Rights. Many friends are desirious that Garrison and Wendell Phillips should lecture at Fitchburg.
Author:
Gill, Eliza Fuller
Addressee:
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Date:
April 28, 1839
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Women abolitionists--United States--History--19th century--Correspondence
Women social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Societies, etc--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Anti-slavery fairs--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Religious aspects--Christianity--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Lectures and lecturing--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--United States
Women social reformers--United States
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Societies
Christianity
Women's rights--United States--History--19th century
Lectures and lecturing
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society
Gill, Eliza Fuller
Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 26 cm.
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Place of origin:
Fitchburg, [Massachusetts]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Identifier:
5912613
Call #:
MS A.9.2 v.11, p.90
Barcode:
39999085842092