Letter from Margaret Fuller, Jamaica Plain, [Massachusetts], to Maria Weston, 1840 December 26

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Title:
Letter from Margaret Fuller, Jamaica Plain, [Massachusetts], to Maria Weston, 1840 December 26
Description:
Margaret Fuller writes to Maria Weston Chapman in regards to referring to a note from her in which she received shortly before going to the "conversation party," she states that she did not have time to ascertain the objects of the anti-slavery fair, and a "conversastion on the subject" would have interrupted the course adopted by her class. She explains her attitude towards the anti-slavery cause which commands her respect, although her own path "leads a different course and often leaves me quite ignorant of what you are doing." Nevertheless, Fuller says she has not been intolerant: "I have wronged none of you by a hasty judgment or careless words...never chimed in with the popular hue and cry." She is interested in the "late movements in your party." She attended the recent convention and was not pleased and disappointed to hear no clear statement in regard to religious institutions and the social position of women. She asks Maria if she has a statement of views in print, or if she would "give me some account of how those subjects stand in your mind?" She writes that "as far I know you seem to me quite wrong as to what is to be done for woman!"
Author:
Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850
Addressee:
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Date:
December 26, 1840
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Women abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Societies, etc--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Meetings--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Anti-slavery fairs--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Publishing--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--United States
Antislavery movements--United States
Women social reformers--United States
Women's rights--United States--History--19th century
Societies
Meetings
Publishers and publishing
Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 26 cm.
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Place of origin:
Jamaica Plain, [Massachusetts]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Identifier:
5982431
Call #:
MS A.9.2, v.14, p.82A
Barcode:
39999085845293