Letter from Anne Knight, London, [England], to Maria Weston Chapman, 24/2 [18]42

Title:: Letter from Anne Knight, London, [England], to Maria Weston Chapman, 24/2 [18]42
Author:: Knight, Anne, 1786-1862
Addressee:: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Date:: [February 24, 1842]
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
Corn laws (Great Britain)
Women's rights
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
Knight, Anne, 1786-1862
Nichol, Elizabeth Pease, 1807-1897
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:: 1 leaf (2 p.) ; 8 5/8 x 6 3/4 in.
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/qz20tc64t
Terms of Use:: No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.

Place of origin:: London, [England]
Language:: English
Notes:: Holograph, signed.
Anne Knight repeats her sister Ria's remark on Americans appearing to be "in complete bondage to each other high & low nothing but panic dread or what this & that may say of them an interminable fear of bad consequences..." Elizabeth Pease is condemned for a while to her couch. Anne Knight advocates the idea of women helping men make better laws: "...will you not aid us in the struggle of might against right?" Anne Knight says: "Our corn-law blaze at Manchester will I fear be a disappointment they seem to make so little impression on the house with its 121 tory majority."
Notes (date):: This date is inferred.
Identifier:: 3133681
Call #:: Ms.A.9.2 v.17, p.35
Barcode:: 39999066782960
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