Draft of letter from Maria Weston Chapman to William Abijah White, [Jan. 1847?]

Item Information

Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph.
Rough draft. This unsigned letter is presumably by Maria Weston Chapman.
Maria Weston Chapman is replying to the letter in which William Abijah White declined to give a speech at the anti-slavery fair because of certain objections. The pressure of a "thousand little affairs at this moment prevents the full & fit answer" to the parts relating to toleration, etc. Chapman writes: "But the reasons of our not advertising in the Chronotype...are entirely independent of any of these considerations. Mr. [Elizur] Wright's personal character... by his intolerance to Mr. Garrison, his justification of embezzlement of the Emancipator" make advertising in his paper undesirable and involve the danger of a disgraceful imputation.
Pages 3-4 of the letter were written on a flier (printed matter) advertising the Thirteenth National Anti-Slavery Bazaar, at Fanueil Hall, on Tuesday, Dec. 22nd.
Identifier:
2800920
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.22, p.145
Barcode:
39999063100729
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