Letter from Sarah Moore Grimké, Groton, [Massachusetts], to Henry Clarke Wright, 1837 August 12

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Title:
Letter from Sarah Moore Grimké, Groton, [Massachusetts], to Henry Clarke Wright, 1837 August 12
Description:
Sarah Moore Grimké writes to Henry Clarke Wright regarding the rights of women to preach. She writes that she will not use Quakerism as an excuse for "my exercising the rights & performing the duties of a rational & responsible being because I claim nothing a virtue of my connection with the Society of Friends, all I claim as a woman and for any woman whom God qualifies & commands to preach his blessed Gospel, I claim the Bible not Quakerism as my sanction & I wish this fully understood." She discusses she and her sister liking the articles in the New England Spectator and forwarding them. She writes that Amos A. Phelps wrote them a "long, kind, admonitory letter, recommending our desisting from our present course." She writes that she is staying with Dr. [Amos] F[arnsworth] while Angelina has been lecturing in the nearby towns. She writes that the Minister at Harvard was displeased by the idea of women giving anti-slavery lectures. Angelina writes her own letter after Sarah discussing anti-slavery news and her disappointment of Sarah's cough because she "can help me so very little." She asks Wright if he saw her friends Sydney Ann Lewis and Jane Smith and if he discussed the "Divine Government" with them.
Addressee:
Wright, Henry Clarke, 1797-1870
Author:
Grimké, Sarah, 1792-1873
Date:
August 12, 1837–August 15, 1837
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Women abolitionists--United States--History--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--Lectures and lecturing--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Publishing--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Newspapers--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Religious aspects--Christianity--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Societies, etc--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Meetings--United States--History--19th century
Women social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Society of Friends--United States--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--United States
Antislavery movements--United States
Lectures and lecturing
Publishers and publishing
Christianity
Societies
Women's rights--United States--History--19th century
Meetings
Women social reformers--United States
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Society of Friends--History
Wright, Henry Clarke, 1797-1870
Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847
Grimké, Angelina Emily, 1805-1879
Grimké, Sarah, 1792-1873
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 25 cm.
Permalink:
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Place of origin:
Groton, [Massachusetts]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Identifier:
5114214
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.6, p.62
Barcode:
39999085430245