Letter from Maria Weston Chapman, At the hall, 15 Winter St., [Boston], to Elizabeth Bates Chapman Laugel, Christmas 1855

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Title:
Letter from Maria Weston Chapman, At the hall, 15 Winter St., [Boston], to Elizabeth Bates Chapman Laugel, Christmas 1855
Addressee:
Laugel, Elizabeth Bates Chapman, b. 1831
Author:
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Date:
1855
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Anti-slavery fairs
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence
Boston (Mass.)--Population
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
Laugel, Elizabeth Bates Chapman, b. 1831
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 8 x 5 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/qz20t176j
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
At the hall, 15 Winter St., [Boston]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed with initials.
Maria Weston Chapman writes about the progress of the anti-slavery fair in Boston. She asks Elizabeth B. Chapman Laugel to write to Mrs. Louise Keller and tell her that her box of contributions [for the anti-slavery fair] arrived safely. Chapman gives the prices at which the various items at fair were sold. Chapman says that "the population of Boston is one half foreign." She comments on the Boston Irish.
Identifier:
2801036
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.28, p.63
Barcode:
39999066789460
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