[Letter to] Maria Weston Chapman, Esteemed Friend
Contributors: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, recipient
Series: Maria Weston Chapman Correspondence (1835-1885)
Published: 1841
Place of publication: Dublin, [Ireland]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women abolitionists; Temperance; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Richard Allen sends autographs of "the greatest man in Ireland, for such I hold Theobald Mathew to be." His name is also prefixed to the address from "our" [the Irish] nation. Teetotalers will be glad to have his autographs. The other autographs are from a forerunner of Father Mathew.

On this stationery, there is an engraving of "The Cove of Cork. Richard Allen comments about this engraving in a postscript: "The little sketch at the head of this, was doubtless one of Father Mathew's early haunts -- It is a beautiful spot.