Letter from Emma Perkins Forbes, [Milton, Massachusetts], to Maria Weston Chapman, 1841 Dec[ember] 27

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Title:
Letter from Emma Perkins Forbes, [Milton, Massachusetts], to Maria Weston Chapman, 1841 Dec[ember] 27
Description:
Emma Perkins Forbes writes to Maria Weston Chapman in regards to giving Maria $100 instead of the enclosed ten if she could, but that she cannot join her in her public interests. She reads and hears little on the subject of abolition, although she loves "a black face..indeed my individual sympathies are stronger with them." She has a distate for public life, is a "perfect fool about politics," and has "a holy horror of societies." Although she always responds to the writings of Dr. William Ellery Channing, she cannot go "hand in hand" with Maria or Mrs. Eliza Lee Follen or Susan Cabot. She mentions a last visit to her childhood home in Pearl St, the illness and death of her aunt Perkins, and other happenings. She comments on Maria's harmony of interests with her sisters and husband. She signs the letter with her initals. Part of the letter seems to be missing.
Author:
Forbes, Emma Perkins
Addressee:
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Date:
December 27, 1841
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Women abolitionists--United States--History--19th century--Correspondence
Women social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--United States
Women social reformers--United States
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Forbes, Emma Perkins
Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Extent:
1 leaf (6 p.) ; 26 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2z110z486
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
[Milton, Massachusetts]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Identifier:
5988703
Call #:
MS A.9.2 v.15, p.119
Barcode:
39999085845343