[Letter to] My beloved friend
Series: Maria Weston Chapman Correspondence (1835-1885)
Published: 1841
Place of publication: [London?, England?]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph.

The signature, as well as the letterhead, have been cut out of this manuscript. The author of this letter is unknown.

There is a fervent plea for fidelity to Christian doctrine. The author of the letter says: "Those orthodox idlers found their desertion of this Christian work [emancipation] on your being not only heretics but very busy in pushing this awful theme into the emancipation cause & making such confusion that they could not act with -- is it you, or them?" Refers especially to Lucretia Mott, whom the writer heard when she "bade defiance to the doctrine of atonement & called it a gross & brutal & cruel scheme or story..."