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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript contains a purple postmarked stamp that says "Garrison Mss."Sarah Moore Grimkè writes to Elizabeth Pease Nichol regarding her life after Angelina's marriage. She says that she has "lived so retired since Angelina's marriage and our time has been so occupied in a different way in the service of the slave, & in domestic duties, that we are comparatively ignorant of the movement of abolitionists...yet our hearts are true to the slave if we know ourselves." She writes that Elizabeth Stanton wrote them that John Scoble said "we had changed our views on the subject of womens rights. I am at a loss to imagine on what he grounded such an assumption we thought we should have written to E.S...we do not agree." She writes about her little nephew, Charles Stuart (Weld) as well as the World Anti-Slavery Convention, discussing her opinions of the rights of women to attend the convention. She writes about her request for information from an article in the Emancipator of June 12. She includes an extract of a letter written by G.W.T[aylor] which advocates for Colonization. She discusses Beulah Sanson's attempt to get a "colored child the daughter of a gentleman in Virginia....a good education, & sent her to Philadelphia for that purpose-Beulah applied to Friends to receive her not into their select schools, but into one of the corporation schools of which they have the control, her request was rejected, she then applied for...

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