Letter from Maria Weston Chapman, Weymouth, [Mass.], to Elizabeth Bates Chapman Laugel, Feb'y 19th, [1865?]

Title:: Letter from Maria Weston Chapman, Weymouth, [Mass.], to Elizabeth Bates Chapman Laugel, Feb'y 19th, [1865?]
Addressee:: Laugel, Elizabeth Bates Chapman, b. 1831
Author:: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Date:: [February 19, 1865?]
Format:: Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:: Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):: Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:: Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
Laugel, Elizabeth Bates Chapman, b. 1831
United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln)
United States Sanitary Commission
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:: 1 leaf (4 p.) ; 4 1/8 x 2 1/2 in.
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/qz20t515n
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Place of origin:: Weymouth, [Mass.]
Language:: English
Notes:: Holograph, signed with initials.
In this letter, Maria Weston Chapman mentions a manuscript draft of the presidents first proclamation that has been "put up in dollar shares to raise $5000 by [a lottery?] for the Sanitary Com. I think I shall put in a dollar for you, as it is a curiosity. But we got the thing so I don't mind losing the pro."
Identifier:: 2801764
Call #:: Ms.A.9.2 v.32, p.19C
Barcode:: 39999066789122
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