Letter from Experience Billings, Cambridge, [Massachusetts], to Maria Weston Chapman, 1839 April 22

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Title:
Letter from Experience Billings, Cambridge, [Massachusetts], to Maria Weston Chapman, 1839 April 22
Description:
Experience Billings writes to Maria Weston Chapman in regards to explaining the delay in sending information requested due to her sickness. She attended three lectures by Mr. [Alanson] St. Clair, which were "much approved and very highly spoken of of the few." He spoke very highly of Garrison. At the close of the lecture she urgently sought subscribers for the "Massachusetts Abolitionist" and he invited subscriptions for the "Liberator", denying that the "Abolitionist" was opposition to the "Liberator." He found that St. Clair did not approve of Mr. Garrison's measures from a mutual friend. She writes that the society took ten or twelve copies of the "Abolitionist" for circulation. She regrets that there is so much apathy in the minds of the people in regard to reading. He writes, "there are many publications on slavery, but the great mass of the people choose to remain ignorant." She writes that even Quakers are not taking up the newspaper, on account of "nonresistance principals." He writes that he believes Garrison is a Christian and "until I read something from his pen that contradict it, I shall be a Garrisonite."
Author:
Billings, Experience
Addressee:
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Date:
April 22, 1839
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
Women social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Societies, etc--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Anti-slavery fairs--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Publishing--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Religious aspects--Christianity--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Newspapers--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Lectures and lecturing--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--United States
Women social reformers--United States
Antislavery movements--United States
Societies
Publishers and publishing
Christianity
Lectures and lecturing
Boston Female Anti-slavery Society
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society
Billings, Experience
St. Clair, Alanson
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
Abolitionist (Boston, Mass. : 1833)
Extent:
1 leaf (3 p.) ; 26 cm.
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Place of origin:
Cambridge, [Massachusetts]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Identifier:
5912643
Call #:
MS A.9.2 v.11, p.87
Barcode:
39999085842118