Letter from Sarah Blake Sturgis Shaw, West Roxbury, [Mass.], to Maria Weston Chapman, Nov. 2, [1842]

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Title:
Letter from Sarah Blake Sturgis Shaw, West Roxbury, [Mass.], to Maria Weston Chapman, Nov. 2, [1842]
Author:
Shaw, Sarah Blake Sturgis, 1815-1902
Addressee:
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Date:
[November 2, 1842]
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
Shaw, Sarah Blake Sturgis, 1815-1902
Latimer, George
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 leaf (3 p.) ; 9 5/8 x 8 1/8 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/qz20vh254
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
West Roxbury, [Mass.]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Mrs. Sarah Blake Sturgis Shaw writes: "All my numerous slight reasons for refusing my name to the advertisement of the 'Fair' are vanished since witnessing the miserable state of the public spirit in Boston concerning the poor slave now in prison, ..." Mrs. Shaw will now sign the advertisement "with real delight." [The "poor slave now in prison" is a reference to the arrest and imprisonment of the fugitive slave George Latimer.]
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
3134115
Call #:
Ms.A.4.6A v.1, p.27
Barcode:
39999066745108
mq8509196