Letter from S.L. Little, Pawtucket, [Rhode Island], to Maria Weston Chapman, 1840 Sept[ember] 9

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Title:
Letter from S.L. Little, Pawtucket, [Rhode Island], to Maria Weston Chapman, 1840 Sept[ember] 9
Description:
S.L. Little writes to Maria Weston Chapman in regards to when she left Pawtucket, she left a manuscript copy of her poems and a note to Maria with Brother Rufus Bliss and asks Maria to retrieve it. She says she may not be able to visit Boston this autumn but shall send by a "Mr. Kingsley of this place to collect money in October when the banks give dividends. She is "an isolated being now" for her "spiritual course is utterly contemned and condemned" and her sentiments are called "peculiar." She regrets her lack of success at "getting Bible classes & Abolition meetings all in vain. They would not come. Now they have a coloured minister a good man but I...offered to explain scripture Sunday mornings to them and have told them up and down that I was sent to them as a teacher and not as a hearer and that somewhere I must give my testimony that I had shrunk from duty fearing that they would be jealous of encroachment on the part of a white female."
Author:
Little, S. L.
Addressee:
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Date:
September 9, 1840
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--Publishing--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
Publishers and publishing
Christianity
Little, S. L.
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 32 cm.
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Place of origin:
Pawtucket, [Rhode Island]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Identifier:
5974440
Call #:
MS A.9.2 v.12, p.56
Barcode:
39999085843363