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Letter from Isabel Jennings, [Cork?, Ireland], to Maria Weston Chapman, Wednesday, Oct. 15, [1845?]

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Jennings, Isabel

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Holograph, signed.Frederick Douglass and James N. Buffum are in Cork, Ireland. Isabel Jennings describes Douglass as noble-minded and sensitive; "everything mean, sordid or slavish is foreign to him." Everyone likes James N. Buffum. Douglass and Buffum feel the dampness of the climate very much. Isabel Jennings thanks Maria Weston Chapman for the promise of seeds.There is cross-writing on pages one through three of this letter.
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Keywords

  1. Antislavery Movements
  2. Boston
  3. Buffum, James N
  4. Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
  5. Correspondence
  6. Douglass, Frederick 1818 1895
  7. History
  8. Jennings, Isabel
  9. Massachusetts
  10. Slaver
  11. United States
  12. Women
  13. Women Abolitionists

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