[Letter to] Dear Bella
Contributors: Weston, Deborah, b.1814 recipient
Series: Maria Weston Chapman Correspondence (1835-1885)
Published: 1860
Place of publication: [Boston, Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed with initials.

Maria Weston Chapman discusses Mary Weston's illness. She tells of Wendell Phillips's handling of Anne Warren Weston's affairs. She gives a long account of a tax controversy between Weymouth and Boston. Chapman distributed 25 tracts. She talks about the "Mobocrats" and [James] Redpath. She objects to yielding a "hair's-breadth" to the opposition. Discusses a conversation with Ann Terry Phillips about the advisability of giving advice to one's friends. Chapman talks about the usefulness of some of the recent anti-slavery meetings. She mentions the continuation of the John Brown meeting and refers again to Redpath.