Letter from Maria Weston Chapman, Chauncy pl[ace], [Boston, Mass.], to Deborah Weston, Friday, April 22, [1841?]

Title:: Letter from Maria Weston Chapman, Chauncy pl[ace], [Boston, Mass.], to Deborah Weston, Friday, April 22, [1841?]
Addressee:: Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Author:: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Date:: [April 22, 1841?]
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
Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Farnsworth, Amos, 1788-1861
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
Stanton, Henry B. (Henry Brewster), 1805-1887
Liberty Party (U.S. : 1840-1848)
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:: 1 leaf (4 p.) ; 9 7/8 x 7 3/4 in.
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/7s75fh687
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Place of origin:: Chauncy pl[ace], [Boston, Mass.]
Language:: English
Notes:: Holograph, signed.
Maria Weston Chapman and her husband came home because of homesickness. She is trying to decide on a house to rent. She tells about an anti-slavery meeting in Albany where Henry B. Stanton and another tried to organize an Eastern New York State Anti-Slavery Society. Gerrit Smith was present, pushing his Third Party ideas. The letter ends with some family news.
Identifier:: 3132895
Call #:: Ms.A.9.2 v.5, p.8
Barcode:: 39999063103855
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