[Letter to] My dear Mrs. Chapman
Contributors: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, recipient
Series: Maria Weston Chapman Correspondence (1835-1885)
Published: 1844
Place of publication: 35 Eccles St., Dublin, [Ireland]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Free trade; Temperance; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

James Haughton has no objection to Maria Weston Chapman publishing a portion of a earlier letter relative to Ireland and O'Connell. Daniel O'Connell and his companions have been set free to the frenzied joy of the people. James Haughton did not attend the public dinner, which was disgraced by much drinking. He comments on the temperance movement. He contrasts American and Irish teetotalism. Father Mathews's influence is still great. However, he has spent his own and others property on the cause, so that an appeal on his behalf is necessary. Haughton tells of his conversion to teetotalism. Haughton's wife died over fifteen years ago, leaving him with four daughters and a son. Haughton thanks Maria W. Chapman for her expression of sentiment on the sugar question, although she has not convinced him. He argues against free trade in sugar with Brazil and Cuba because it would help slavery. Henry C. Wright, who was here, agrees with Maria W. Chapman on this matter. Haughton comments on Unitarians here as being "snug" in respect to reform.

There are two layers of writing, lengthwise and crosswise, on all four pages of this letter.