[Letter to] My dear Friend
Contributors: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, recipient
Series: Maria Weston Chapman Correspondence (1835-1885)
Published: 1846
Place of publication: 5 South Gray St[reet], Edinburgh, [Scotland]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

The box from Edinburgh was dispatched in time for the steamer of Nov. 4, and in which William Lloyd Garrison is expected to take his package home. Having had him as a guest for a few days has been a source of "satisfaction and true enjoyment." Garrison has "secured the love & admiration of all who have seen & heard him with sincere and candid minds---in public---whilst all who have had the privilege of meeting him in private love & esteem him as their own personal friend and brother..." Frederick Douglass is "an exceeding favorite with both old and young." Jane Wigham comments on the influence of the pro-slavery clergy which is "extending to us and working its baleful effects among all denominations." Wigham asks for advice about future cooperation and the desirability of holding a fair here, etc.