Letter from Maria Weston Chapman, [Boston, Mass.], to Deborah Weston, [May 15, 1839]
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Holograph, signed.Maria Weston Chapman instructs Deborah Weston to hand the enclosed letter to Rodney French. Chapman asks for a copy of Amos A. Phelps's letter to [John F.] Emerson. Chapman comments: "New York has just been taught a lesson I find. Handled without mittens. L[ewis] Tappan resigned!"Written on the top margin of page one, there is a separate note from Anne Warren Weston to Deborah Weston, dated May 15, and signed with the initials "A. W. W." Anne W. Weston explains that she did not write because she was ill when she returned from New York, and she has been feeling poorly ever since. Anne has been writing out the full notes from the New York meeting, anticipating that William Lloyd Garrison might want to see them. She will send the notes to Deborah at the end of the week.
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- American Anti Slavery Society
- Antislavery Movements
- Boston
- Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
- Correspondence
- French, Rodney Approximately 1802 1882
- History
- Massachusetts
- Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus) 1805 1847
- Slaver
- United States
- Weston, Anne Warren 1812 1890
- Weston, Deborah B. 1814
- Women
- Women Abolitionists