[Letter to] My dear Maria
Contributors: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, recipient
Series: Maria Weston Chapman Correspondence (1835-1885)
Published: 1842
Place of publication: Philad[elphi]a, [Penn.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Lucretia Mott has obtained permission from "Emmeline" and Sarah Douglass to have their pieces published in the Liberty Bell. Emmeline is the pseudonym of Mira Townsend; for the first time, Mira Townsend made no objection to her real name being used when her article is printed in the Liberty Bell. Lucretia Mott includes some lines written by Benjamin Rush Plumly about Dr. Channing. Lucretia Mott refers to Charles C. Burleigh's visit with Maria Weston Chapman. Lucretia Mott writes: "I should feel no confidence in William [Henry] Burleigh, that he would not again betray our cause to please his party." However, Lucretia Mott entertained Burleigh and his wife when they passed through the city and found no effort in receiving him "as Charles's brother, and as an A. S. [Anti-Slavery] poet." Lucretia Mott was admonished for her too great tolerance. In a conversation, Charles T. Torrey admitted his wrong. Lucretia Mott and her husband have returned from a tour in the south; she reports on the anti-slavery meetings in cities and towns.

The last part of this letter was written on the blank pages of a flier (printed matter) of the "Circular of the Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women."