Letter from Amos Farnsworth, Groton, [Mass.], to Maria Weston Chapman, 13 June 1840

Title:: Letter from Amos Farnsworth, Groton, [Mass.], to Maria Weston Chapman, 13 June 1840
Author:: Farnsworth, Amos, 1788-1861
Addressee:: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Date:: June 13, 1840
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
Farnsworth, Amos, 1788-1861
American Anti-Slavery Society
Boston Female Anti-slavery Society
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:: 1 leaf (2 p.) ; 9 7/8 x 7 3/4 in.
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/cv43qg66j
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Place of origin:: Groton, [Mass.]
Language:: English
Notes:: Holograph, signed.
Amos Farnsworth has received Maria Weston Chapman's letter requesting to advance $300 to the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society to enable it "to make its pledge to the American Soc[iety] immediately available." Farnsworth relates the difficulty he had in trying to raise a sum to help a "pecuniarily embarassed" anti-slavery friend. Farnsworth will be in Boston soon and then will be glad to do what he can.
Identifier:: 3134357
Call #:: Ms.A.9.2 v.13, p.85
Barcode:: 39999066746510
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