Letter from Sumner Lincoln, Gardner, [Massachusetts], to Maria Weston Chapman, [1839] Aug[ust] 25

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Title:
Letter from Sumner Lincoln, Gardner, [Massachusetts], to Maria Weston Chapman, [1839] Aug[ust] 25
Description:
Sumner Lincoln writes to Maria Weston Chapman in regards to thanking her for sending "Right and Wrong in Massachusetts." He refers to the book's discussion of old and new organizations. He sends a sermon on holiness "which I have endeavored to exhibit the standard of right to your mind has been drawn to the great subject of right & wrong." He goes on to say that the anti-slavery movement has been a great revealer of the corrupt heart of "religionists of all sects."
Author:
Lincoln, Sumner, 1799-1890
Addressee:
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Date:
[August 25, 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--Religious aspects--Christianity--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Publishing--Great Britain--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--United States
Women social reformers--United States
Antislavery movements--United States
Societies
Christianity
Antislavery movements--Great Britain
Publishers and publishing
Lincoln, Sumner, 1799-1890
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Places:
United Kingdom
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 26 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2z110n005
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
Gardner, [Massachusetts]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
5950920
Call #:
MS A.9.2 v.12, p.18
Barcode:
39999085843223