Letter from Mary Anne Estlin, Park St., [Bristol, England], to Maria Weston Chapman, Nov. 12, 1852
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Holograph, signed.Mary Anne Estlin has not replied to Mrs. Maria Weston Chapman's letters owing to the pressure of work and severe headaches. She is pleased that Mrs. Chapman approves of the Anti-Slavery Advocate. George Thompson was supposed to write for it, but didn't. She gives Richard David Webb credit for the publication of the Advocate. Sarah Pugh, John Bishop Estlin, and Edwin Chapman wrote for it. Mary A. Estlin comments that "Mr. D. Hill has none of the wealth you attribute to him." She discusses Mr. Hill's daughter. She speaks of an operation performed on a girl named Smith by her father, and about her sister who brought this letter to Maria W. Chapman.
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- Anti Slavery Advocate
- Antislavery Movements
- Boston
- Chapman, Edwin
- Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
- Correspondence
- Estlin, J. B. (John Bishop) 1785 1855
- Estlin, Mary Anne 1820 1902
- Hill, D
- History
- Massachusetts
- Slaver
- Thompson, George 1804 1878
- United States
- Webb, Richard Davis 1805 1872
- Women
- Women Abolitionists