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Letter from Jane Wigham, 5 South Gray St[reet], Edinburgh, [Scotland], to Maria Weston Chapman, 31/10/[18]46

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Title:
Letter from Jane Wigham, 5 South Gray St[reet], Edinburgh, [Scotland], to Maria Weston Chapman, 31/10/[18]46
Author:
Wigham, Jane
Addressee:
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Date:
[October 31, 1846]
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
Wigham, Jane
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 10 1/4 x 8 1/8 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/cv43qj278
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
5 South Gray St[reet], Edinburgh, [Scotland]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
The box from Edinburgh was dispatched in time for the steamer of Nov. 4, and in which William Lloyd Garrison is expected to take his package home. Having had him as a guest for a few days has been a source of "satisfaction and true enjoyment." Garrison has "secured the love & admiration of all who have seen & heard him with sincere and candid minds---in public---whilst all who have had the privilege of meeting him in private love & esteem him as their own personal friend and brother..." Frederick Douglass is "an exceeding favorite with both old and young." Jane Wigham comments on the influence of the pro-slavery clergy which is "extending to us and working its baleful effects among all denominations." Wigham asks for advice about future cooperation and the desirability of holding a fair here, etc.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
3134333
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.22, p.110
Barcode:
39999066746254
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