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

Jerusha L. Bird regrets that so little help (for the Boston anti-slavery fair) can be found in Taunton. "The [female] Society has become extinct." Bird infers that those influenced by "new organization" are working privately, as Miss [Martha?] Ball's letters have been privately circulated. As "it is the opinion of all the old friends that a woman will do more than a man, on account of the political excitement," they have requested Mr. John A. Collins to send Abby Kelley to stay two or three weeks and lecture.