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Letter from John Anderson Collins, Boston, [Mass.], to Maria Weston Chapman and Caroline Weston, Feb. 28, 1842

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Holograph, signed.This circular letter announces the formation of the "Society of Universal Inquiry and Reform." The society will concentrate for the present time on "the right of individual property and its influence upon society." In this letter, John Anderson Collins includes a list of 22 questions which the addressees are requested to answer. For example: "The number of capitalists with over five hundred dollars and their average income." A special meeting for the discussion of private property will take place in Worcester, March 28-29, and the first annual meeting in New York is in May.John Anderson Collins is the corresponding secretary of the Society of Universal Inquiry and Reform.On the verso, this manuscript has the delivery address: M.W. Chapman & Caroline Weston, Boston, Mass.
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  1. Antislavery Movements
  2. Boston
  3. Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
  4. Collins, John A. (John Anderson) 1810 1879
  5. Correspondence
  6. History
  7. Massachusetts
  8. Slaver
  9. Society Of Individual Inquiry And Reform
  10. United States
  11. Weston, Caroline 1808 1882
  12. Women
  13. Women Abolitionists

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