Letter to Maria Weston Chapman, [London?, England?], [19 Aug. 1841]

Item Information

Title:
Letter to Maria Weston Chapman, [London?, England?], [19 Aug. 1841]
Addressee:
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Date:
[August 19, 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
Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 leaf (3 p.) ; 9 1/8 x 7 1/4 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/7s75fs23j
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
[London?, England?]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph.
The signature, as well as the letterhead, have been cut out of this manuscript. The author of this letter is unknown.
There is a fervent plea for fidelity to Christian doctrine. The author of the letter says: "Those orthodox idlers found their desertion of this Christian work [emancipation] on your being not only heretics but very busy in pushing this awful theme into the emancipation cause & making such confusion that they could not act with -- is it you, or them?" Refers especially to Lucretia Mott, whom the writer heard when she "bade defiance to the doctrine of atonement & called it a gross & brutal & cruel scheme or story..."
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
3133176
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.15, p.56
Barcode:
39999066788629
mq8390452