Letter from Edmund Quincy, Dedham, [Mass.], to Maria Weston Chapman, June 2, [18]40

Title:: Letter from Edmund Quincy, Dedham, [Mass.], to Maria Weston Chapman, June 2, [18]40
Author:: Quincy, Edmund, 1808-1877
Addressee:: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Date:: [June 2, 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
Quincy, Edmund, 1808-1877
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:: 1 leaf (4 p.) ; 8 x 4 7/8 in.
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/qz20vh10h
Terms of Use:: No known copyright restrictions.
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Place of origin:: Dedham, [Mass.]
Language:: English
Notes:: Holograph, signed.
Edmund Quincy exclaims "this is a pretty job," regarding the project given to him by William Lloyd Garrison to write an annual record of the affairs of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. Edmund Quincy asks for Maria Weston Chapman's help, as "the chronicler of the cause."
Notes (date):: This date is inferred.
Identifier:: 3133878
Call #:: Ms.A.9.2 v.13, p.77
Barcode:: 39999066780378
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