Typed copy of letter from Maria Weston Chapman, Boston, [Mass.], to Louisa Gilman Loring, May 23, 1840

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Title:
Typed copy of letter from Maria Weston Chapman, Boston, [Mass.], to Louisa Gilman Loring, May 23, 1840
Addressee:
Loring, Louisa Gilman, d. 1868
Author:
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Date:
May 23, 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
Loring, Louisa Gilman, d. 1868
Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 leaf (3 p.) ; 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/7s75dq336
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
Boston, [Mass.]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph.
This manuscript was typed on the verso of stationary with the letterhead: "W.L. Garrison, Agent, Edison Electric Co, 132 Federal Street, Boston, 188[-]." There are editorial corrections. Whereabouts of original manuscript is unknown.
In this letter, Maria Weston Chapman discusses a plan to raise money "to start the National A.S. Organ at N. York." Chapman has inferred from a letter that Harriet Martineau is fatally ill.
Identifier:
2800321
Call #:
Ms.A.1.2 v.9, p.47
Barcode:
39999063099178
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