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Letter to] My Beloved friend [manuscript

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Holograph, signedThe Pawtucket Juvenile Anti-Slavery Society has requested that Elizabeth B. Chace ask Maria Weston Chapman to contribute an article to a little book to be issued for sale at their annual fair and to be called "The Slaves Memorial" or the like. Chace asks Maria W. Chapman to ask Edmund Quincy, Lydia Maria Child, and others to write for it. Chace concludes the letter by exclaiming: "Oh! how deceived you have been in Dr. Manford."Dr. Manford is an alias for John Colman. See William Lloyd Garrison, Vol. II, note 348; "His titular name [Dr. Manford] like his anti-slavery profession, was put on." For another reference to Dr. Manford, see the letter dated July 9, 1840, by Edmund Quincy to Caroline Weston, Call No. Ms.A.9.2 v.13, p.99
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