[Letter to] My dear Mrs. Chapman
Contributors: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, recipient
Series: Maria Weston Chapman Correspondence (1835-1885)
Published: 1845
Place of publication: Bristol, [England]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women abolitionists; Anti-slavery fairs; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Mary Carpenter tells about some of the gifts sent for the Boston anti-slavery fair, mentioning that Mrs. Eliza L. Follen has particularly requested the drawing of Mary Carpenter's house. Carpenter encloses a poem by Coleridge in which the river otter is immortalized. Carpenter has sent a beautiful poem to Mrs. Follen, which Mary W. Chapman is at liberty to print under certain restrictions. She suggests that Chapman send over a number of papers giving a brief account of the fair. Carpenter recalls that Clarkson, Granville, Sharp, and Wilberforce were toiling "on through a gloomy night." She quotes Wendell Phillips: "I do not know that I was born to abolish the slave trade, but I know that I was born to do my duty."