[Letter to] My dear Maria
Contributors: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, recipient
Series: Maria Weston Chapman Correspondence (1835-1885)
Published: 1840
Place of publication: Philad[elphi]a, [Penn.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

In this letter, Lucretia Mott comments on the new book, Despotism in America, which she has "since read with deep interest." [Despotism in America is by Richard Hildreth, Boston, 1840.] Lucretia Mott wishes David Lee Child and Lydia Maria Child would settle in Philadelphia. Anna M. Hopper wishes that Mrs. Child would open a school for young children, but Lucretia Mott is more concerned that she should be sent to the World's Convention. In reference to the division between the New and Old Organizations, Lucretia Mott hopes that J. G. Whittier will have his eyes opened, but he "seems to be blinded." She describes an incident in Smyrna, Delaware, where D. Neall was tarred and feathered.