Letter from Eleanor A. Jewett, Byfield, [Massachusetts], to Maria Weston Chapman, 1840 Jan[uary] 5

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Title:
Letter from Eleanor A. Jewett, Byfield, [Massachusetts], to Maria Weston Chapman, 1840 Jan[uary] 5
Description:
Eleanor A. Jewett writes to Maria Weston Chapman in regards to the circumstances which resulted in Jewett's drafting of resolutions passed by her female anti-slavery society in Byfield and published in the Liberator. The pro-slavery minister lectured the writer for hours on her improper conduct in the anti-slavery enterprise which prompted her to lay the matter before her society and to draft the resolutions. She approves of the plan for the weekly contributions "but we must make a few more abolitionists before the plan can be prosecuted very systematically in Byfield." The society is too small and too poor to carry it out, and because they want more information, they have pledged to spend the money on lectures.
Author:
Jewett, Eleanor A.
Addressee:
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Date:
May 5, 1840
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Women abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Anti-slavery fairs--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Newspapers--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Publishing--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Meetings--United States--History--19th century
Women social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Lectures and lecturing--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Societies, etc--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--United States
Antislavery movements--United States
Publishers and publishing
Meetings
Women social reformers--United States
Lectures and lecturing
Societies
Jewett, Eleanor A.
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 25 cm.
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Place of origin:
Byfield, [Massachusetts]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Identifier:
5957895
Call #:
MS A.9.2, v.13, p.4
Barcode:
39999085843280