[Letter to] Dear Friend
Contributors: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, recipient
Series: Maria Weston Chapman Correspondence (1835-1885)
Published: 1840
Place of publication: Leicester, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Abolitionists; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; Political activity; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

At the request of Maria Weston Chapman, Lucy Earle gives the genealogy and family history of the Earles, beginning with the seventeenth century settlers. Lucy Earle's father made cards for the first cotton mill in the country. Among Lucy's brothers are John Milton Earle, editor of the Massachusetts Spy, Worcester, and Thomas Earle, in Philadelphia, who in his law practice "always befriended the colored people." Thomas Earle was a member of the Harrisburg consitutional convention and voted against the "white" qualification of voters. Since Thomas Earle was opposed to independent nominations, Lucy Earle regrets that "he did not immediately decline the acceptance of the nomination." The Buffum family is related to the Earle family through Lucy Earle's mother.