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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Charles Turner Torrey writes to Maria Weston Chapman in regards to his belief that the letters from which extracts have been printed in her book, "Right and Wrong in Massachusetts" are forgeries. He writes, "I have repeatedly declared them to be such, to the least of my knowledge and belief, in public and in private, at the same time fully exhonorating you from the guilt of the deed." He asks her to transmit any of these letters to him while retaining certified copies for herself and if she does not have these letters, he asks if she has seen them or if these "extracts" were communicated to her in writing, or verbally. He asks her if she could divulge the names of those who showed these letters to her if they are not in her possession. He believes he knows the "guilty authors of this deed." He refers to an imputation, by Oliver Johnson, that there was the author of a letter resembling those quoted that he has publicly denied. He criticizes her for publishing these letters without consulting Samuel Joseph May or himself.

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