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[Letter to] Elizabeth Pease, Dear Friend [manuscript]

by: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885; Nichol, Elizabeth Pease, 1807-1897, recipient

Publication date: 1840

Topics: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, Nichol, Elizabeth Pease, 1807-1897, Collins, John A. (John Anderson), 1810-1879, Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876, Liberty bell (Boston, Mass.), Abolitionists, Antislavery movements, Women abolitionists

Publisher: Boston, [Mass.]

Collection: bplscas; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

Holograph, signed

Maria Weston Chapman thanks Elizabeth Pease Nichol for her article for the Liberty Bell, an anti-slavery periodical. Chapman writes: "Let me occupy the remainder of this letter in Introducing to you our dear friend, John A. Collins..." He is "to endeavour to relieve a temporary difficulty for money" caused by the sale of the Emancipator. Chapman had doubts about asking another nation for help, but rationalizes those doubts away. She suggests supplying Collins with a list of prospects. Chapman wrote to Harriet Martineau, asking for her help and influence