Letter from Eliza Fuller Gill, Fitchburg, [Massachusetts], to Maria Weston Chapman, 1839 Dec[ember] 6

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Title:
Letter from Eliza Fuller Gill, Fitchburg, [Massachusetts], to Maria Weston Chapman, 1839 Dec[ember] 6
Description:
Eliza Fuller Gill writes to Maria Weston Chapman in regards to her regret that the articles her society had intended to send for the October anti-slavery fair did not arrive in time. Their donation was very little but "it is a fair specifimen of anti slavery in Fitchburg. Unitarianism, priest and people, male and female, with the exception of one or two women, stands entire aloof from our cause." E.W. Bullard, the Calvinist minister seems to hate anti-slavery with "perfect hatred" that even Charles T. Torrey was unable to win him over. He wouldn't allow him to preach for him. She writes that their women are generally under clerical influence. Mr. Gill, Mr. Smith, and others are very desirious of Garrison lecturing in Fitchburg. Some members believe that the little funds they have should go to the Boston female anti-slavery society but a majority thought by doing that it would go against the new organization. She asks if there is any hope for the Boston female anti-slavery society? She does not understand why so many women can oppose Maria and she asks, "is it envy or self caused incapacity for comprehending your motives and the working of disinterested benevolence and sanctified phylanthrophy?" She sends a communication to the Liberator on women's rights.
Author:
Gill, Eliza Fuller
Addressee:
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Date:
December 6, 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--Lectures and lecturing--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Newspapers--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Religious aspects--Christianity--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
Lectures and lecturing
Women's rights--United States--History--19th century
Christianity
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society
Boston Female Anti-slavery Society
Gill, Eliza Fuller
Torrey, Charles T. (Charles Turner), 1813-1846
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
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:
5930504
Call #:
MS A.9.2 v.13, p.15
Barcode:
39999085843058