Letter from Thomas Parnell Beach, The damp, cold, jail, Newburyport, [Massachusetts], to Maria Weston Chapman, 1842 Nov[ember] 29

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Title:
Letter from Thomas Parnell Beach, The damp, cold, jail, Newburyport, [Massachusetts], to Maria Weston Chapman, 1842 Nov[ember] 29
Description:
Thomas Parnell Beach writes to Maria Weston Chapman in regards to appreciating her "affectionate notice" of his condition. He believes that what has been done for the slave "is the result of independent individual exertion, combining & harmonising in their operation," and that organisation has been a hindrance to moral enterprises. He gives examples. Science is in less danger from organisation, but the "work of ages in morals...has got to be done over again." He elaborates on this thought. He asks Maria "why place friend A.M. Quimby's remarks under "Refuge & Oppression" & there leave them?" He discusses the importance of the ideas contained in these remarks. He is glad to see her initials under many articles in the Liberator, and wishes all papers in the land were under the influence of woman. His wife "feels deeply afflicted at my sepulchral life, which the church have awarded me for a time."
Author:
Beach, Thomas Parnell, 1808-1846
Addressee:
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Date:
November 29, 1842
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--Newspapers--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Religious aspects--Christianity--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Meetings--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
Christianity
Meetings
Publishers and publishing
Beach, Thomas Parnell, 1808-1846
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Liberty bell (Boston, Mass.)
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 25 cm.
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Place of origin:
The damp, cold, jail, Newburyport, [Massachusetts]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Identifier:
6055285
Call #:
MS A.9.2, v.17, p.118
Barcode:
39999085845855