Letter from Maria Weston Chapman to Lucy M. Ball, Martha V. Ball, Mary S. Parker, Catherine M. Sullivan, and Mrs. E. R. Davis, [1837?]

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Title:
Letter from Maria Weston Chapman to Lucy M. Ball, Martha V. Ball, Mary S. Parker, Catherine M. Sullivan, and Mrs. E. R. Davis, [1837?]
Addressee:
Ball, Lucy M., 1807-1891
Addressee:
Ball, Martha V., 1811-1890
Addressee:
Parker, Mary S.
Addressee:
Sullivan, Catherine M.
Addressee:
Davis, E. R., Mrs.
Author:
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Date:
[1837?]
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
Ball, Lucy M., 1807-1891
Ball, Martha V., 1811-1890
Davis, E. R., Mrs.
Parker, Mary S.
Sullivan, Catherine M.
Boston Female Anti-slavery Society
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 leaf (3 p.) ; 9 3/4 x 8 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/7s75fn85q
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Maria Weston Chapman found a number of members of the [Boston Female Anti-Slavery] Society opposed to making the Society's report her vehicle of communication, which was handed to her by the Misses Ball. Chapman justifies her course in inserting this communication in the front of the report, and states that she will discharge the extra expense incurred. She regrets that the communication was ambiguous and that those who made it "should not have taken a different position from the outset." She recognizes in the society "an apparently irreconcilable difference of opinion ..." Chapman has always announced her intension not to suppress her own views.
Written across pages two through three, apparently at a later time, is this comment by Maria W. Chapman: "I asked if they knew that this was 'war, to the knife's point?' they said they did."
Identifier:
2800061
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.6, p.48
Barcode:
39999063103848
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