Letter from S.L. Little,Newport, [Massachusetts], to Maria Weston Chapman, 1840 September 26

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Title:
Letter from S.L. Little,Newport, [Massachusetts], to Maria Weston Chapman, 1840 September 26
Description:
S.L. Little writes to Maria Weston Chapman in regards to thanking her for her critique and praise of her poem in the Liberator. She writes her views of Dr. [William Ellery] Channing and says, "do not think it is because I should not like to hear his religious views praised..but I do not like to hear him praised so much by abolitionists" because she is an abolitionist in a sense, which he is not. She comments on the errors of the church and says "the voice of the Spirit cries to the church in her inward soul to repent." She does not believe that a living Christian aboltionist can have church fellowship with a proslavery church. She sets forth her belief and explains her aversion to controversy because of extreme sensibility.
Author:
Little, S. L.
Addressee:
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Date:
September 26, 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
Slavery and the church--United States
Little, S. L.
Channing, William F. (William Francis), 1820-1901
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 26 cm.
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Place of origin:
Newport, [Massachusetts]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Identifier:
5974446
Call #:
MS A.9.2 v.14, p.17
Barcode:
39999085843371