[Letter to] My Dear Friend
Contributors: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, recipient
Series: Maria Weston Chapman Correspondence (1835-1885)
Published: 1843
Place of publication: Lexington, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Samuel Joseph May reluctantly withdraws from the list of lecturers in a course on slavery. The duties of conducting his school, in which young women are preparing themselves as teachers, requires all his thoughts. He suggests his "most excellent friend," the Rev. Oliver Stearns of Hingham to take his place.