Letter from Maria Weston Chapman, Ch[auncy] Street, [Boston], to Deborah Weston, Monday Morning, [185-?]

Title:: Letter from Maria Weston Chapman, Ch[auncy] Street, [Boston], to Deborah Weston, Monday Morning, [185-?]
Addressee:: Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Author:: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Date:: [1850?–1859?]
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
Kansas--History--1854-1861
Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Brown, John, 1800-1859
May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871
Wattles, Augustus, 1807-1876
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:: 1 leaf (4 p.) ; 7 1/8 x 4 in.
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/7s75fs66b
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Place of origin:: Ch[auncy] Street, [Boston]
Language:: English
Notes:: Holograph, signed with initials.
Maria Weston Chapman writes: "I had got the [John] Brown jackets for Standards, as you see." She comments on a financial transaction involving Edmund Quincy, Francis Jackson, Samuel J. May, and herself. Chapman elaborates on the topic: "May is a wonderful Blunderer. ...Ministers don't make good Bookkeepers. They have not the instinct." She says that "Mary is better. ...She was just gone of starvation, & has to be fed slowly like taken off a wreck." Mrs. Lydia Maria Child called. Wendell Phillips brought Augustus Wattles of Kansas, "once a Lane Siminary boy," who was "wild with delight" at seeing Maria W. Chapman. Chapman said: "They got $120 for Kansas, at the meeting yesterday." Jefferson Davis "spits up Compromise."
Identifier:: 3133041
Call #:: Ms.A.9.2 v.16, p.40B
Barcode:: 39999063100943
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