Letter from Elizabeth Poole, Killiane, Ireland, to Maria Weston Chapman, April 26, [18]48

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Title:
Letter from Elizabeth Poole, Killiane, Ireland, to Maria Weston Chapman, April 26, [18]48
Author:
Poole, Elizabeth
Addressee:
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Date:
[April 26, 1848]
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Abolitionists--Poetry
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence
Abolitionists
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
Poole, Elizabeth
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Liberty bell (Boston, Mass.)
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 leaf (2 p.) ; 7 3/8 x 4 5/8 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/qz20v958f
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
Killiane, Ireland
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
In this letter, Elizabeth Poole acknowledges a gift consisting of last year's Liberty Bell. Having been asked to "contribute something for next year's volume," Elizabeth Poole sends a poem "written some time back, but never published---I sent it to R. D. Webb who did not like it--- ..." [The poem referred to, is: "Prayer of the Captain's Clerk," by Elizabeth Poole, published in the Liberty Bell, 1849, p. 206-211.]
The letter is accompanied by an envelope with the delivery address: Maria W. Chapman.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
3133786
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.24, p.13
Barcode:
39999066781566
mq8509622