[Letter to] My dear friend
Contributors: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, recipient
Series: Maria Weston Chapman Correspondence (1835-1885)
Published: 1844
Place of publication: New Kent Road, London, [England]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Esther Sturge comments on the charge that John Quincy Adams is not an abolitionist. Sturge believes that "he is evidently a friend to freedom." She criticizes William Lloyd Garrison for his involvement in such a large number of causes. Sturge writes to Maria Weston Chapman: "Unity of purpose will always carry a point even if there are a variety of shades, & I would not rebuke any who are not entirely with you, less I should make them my enemies, ..." Sturge quotes Thomas Clarkson's praise of Zachary Macaulay.