Letter from Jane Jennings, Cork, [Ireland], to Maria Weston Chapman, Dec. 1st, 1841

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Title:
Letter from Jane Jennings, Cork, [Ireland], to Maria Weston Chapman, Dec. 1st, 1841
Author:
Jennings, Jane
Addressee:
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Date:
December 1, 1841
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Abolitionists--Ireland
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence
Abolitionists
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
Jennings, Jane
Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Ireland
Extent:
1 leaf (3 p.) ; 9 x 7 3/8 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/qz20tb98f
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
Cork, [Ireland]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Jane Jennings begins this letter: "A few members of the Cork Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society feeling anxious to express their interest in the efforts of the Old Organized Abolitionists take this opportunity of doing so--- ..." The undersigned are happy that George Thompson "has espoused the cause of the true Society." The lectures of C. L. Remond have been "productive of much good." They admire William Lloyd Garrison. This letter is signed by Jane Jennings, Hannah E. White, Alicia Haynes, Helen Jennings, Charlotte Jennings, Jane White, and Isabel Jennings, Sec[retary].
Identifier:
3133571
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.15, p.104
Barcode:
39999066781632
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