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Letter to] My dear Mrs. Chapman [manuscript

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Jennings, Jane

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Holograph, signedIn this letter, Jane Jennings writes of "the good done to the cause" by Frederick Douglass. As a result of Frederick Douglass's visit to Cork, Ireland, "for the first time some members of the Church of England have become interested" in the abolition movement. In Limerick, a popular soiree for him was attended by several hundred "respectable inhabitants." Frederick Douglass stayed three weeks with Jane Jenning's family and won their affection
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