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

Maria Weston Chapman writes: "I had got the [John] Brown jackets for Standards, as you see." She comments on a financial transaction involving Edmund Quincy, Francis Jackson, Samuel J. May, and herself. Chapman elaborates on the topic: "May is a wonderful Blunderer. ...Ministers don't make good Bookkeepers. They have not the instinct." She says that "Mary is better. ...She was just gone of starvation, & has to be fed slowly like taken off a wreck." Mrs. Lydia Maria Child called. Wendell Phillips brought Augustus Wattles of Kansas, "once a Lane Siminary boy," who was "wild with delight" at seeing Maria W. Chapman. Chapman said: "They got $120 for Kansas, at the meeting yesterday." Jefferson Davis "spits up Compromise."