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Incomplete letter from Maria Weston Chapman, [Boston?, Mass.], to Caroline Weston, Tuesday morning, [July 1845?]

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Holograph.Maria Weston Chapman begins this letter with a discussion of letters and family news. She says that "Sam Sewall is so quiet he gets no abuse from anybody." She is willing to see Caroline Weston made head of an unnamed society. She mentions various abolitionists, including Wendell Phillips and Samuel May, and a circular that will be sent out to the Unitarians.This letter is written on the verso and blank spaces of a form (document) for "Anti-Slavery Peace Pledge" and "Disunion Pledge."
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  1. Antislavery Movements
  2. Boston
  3. Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
  4. Correspondence
  5. History
  6. Massachusetts
  7. Secession
  8. Sewall, Samuel E. (Samuel Edmund) 1799 1888
  9. Slaver
  10. United States
  11. Weston, Caroline 1808 1882
  12. Women
  13. Women Abolitionists

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