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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Sarah Moore Grimkè writes to Henry Clark Wright regarding the rights of women to preach. She writes that she will not use Quakerism as an excuse for "my exercising the rights & performing the duties of a rational & responsible being because I claim nothing a virtue of my connection with the Society of Friends, all I claim as a woman and for any woman whom God qualifies & commands to preach his blessed Gospel, I claim the Bible not Quakerism as my sanction & I wish this fully understood." She discusses she and her sister liking the articles in the New England Spectator and forwarding them. She writes that Amos A. Phelps wrote them a "long, kind, admonitory letter, recommending our desisting from our present course." She writes that she is staying with Dr. [Amos] F[arnsworth] while Angelina has been lecturing in the nearby towns. She writes that the Minister at Harvard was displeased by the idea of women giving anti-slavery lectures. Angelina writes her own letter after Sarah discussing anti-slavery news and her disappointment of Sarah's cough because she "can help me so very little." She asks Wright if he saw her friends Sydney Ann Lewis and Jane Smith and if he discussed the "Divine Government" with them.

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