[Letter to] My Dear Mrs. Chapman
Contributors: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, recipient
Series: Maria Weston Chapman Correspondence (1835-1885)
Published: 1865
Place of publication: Anti-Slavery Office, New York
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women abolitionists; American Anti-Slavery Society; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Oliver Johnson encloses Mr. [Henry Ward] Beecher's sermon on the death of Lincoln. Oliver Johnson writes: "I think, if our friends manage wisely, that we shall get a vote to dissolve; but I may be mistaken. W.P. [Wendell Phillips] will no doubt exert himself to the utmost" [to continue the American Anti-Slavery Society]. Oliver Johnson tells an anecdote, presenting an analogy to the folly of some abolitionists. He concludes that if "[Wendell] Phillips, P.P. [Parker Pillsbury] and they F.s [Fosters] choose to wear the 'old clothes' of the American A.S. Society after they are thrown aside, let them."