Incomplete letter from Maria Weston Chapman, [Boston?, Mass.], to Caroline Weston, Tuesday morning, [July 1845?]

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Title:
Incomplete letter from Maria Weston Chapman, [Boston?, Mass.], to Caroline Weston, Tuesday morning, [July 1845?]
Addressee:
Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882
Author:
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Date:
[July 1845?]
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
Secession
Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882
Sewall, Samuel E. (Samuel Edmund), 1799-1888
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 12 3/4 x 7 7/8 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/7s75fg592
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
[Boston?, Mass.]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph.
Maria Weston Chapman begins this letter with a discussion of letters and family news. She says that "Sam Sewall is so quiet he gets no abuse from anybody." She is willing to see Caroline Weston made head of an unnamed society. She mentions various abolitionists, including Wendell Phillips and Samuel May, and a circular that will be sent out to the Unitarians.
This letter is written on the verso and blank spaces of a form (document) for "Anti-Slavery Peace Pledge" and "Disunion Pledge."
Identifier:
3132849
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.4, p.7
Barcode:
39999063103517
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