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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Angelina Emily Grimkè and Sarah Moore Grimkè write to Henry Clark Wright regarding their disappointment in not seeing their articles in the New England Spectactor. Sarah writes, "I wrote to him yesterday to request him to return it to me if he did not intend to publish it & he wrote in reply, 'the communication from Mr. Wright respecting yourself & your sister, contained so many things highly objectionable that I could not put it into the printers hands without revision, this I have not yet done...I will either make use of it, or send it to you next week.'" She continues to write that she is "sick of the narrow minded policy of Christians, of abolitionists, trying to keep us under the different parts of Christianity, as if it were not a beautiful & harmonious system which could not be divided, what shall we say to those times & what shall we do, but leave the dead to follow their dead & follow Christ." Sarah discusses how Angelina is more "downcast than I have yet seen her, because our coming forth in the A.S. cause seems really to be at the bottom of this clerical defection." She writes that J.G. Whittier and T.D. Weld want her and her sister to remain "silent on the woman question" but "I do not feel as if I could surrender my right to discuss any great moral subject." She writes that the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society...

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