[Letter to] My dear Mrs. Chapman
Contributors: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, recipient
Series: Maria Weston Chapman Correspondence (1835-1885)
Published: 1851
Place of publication: Bristol, [England]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women abolitionists; American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

John Bishop Estlin asks Maria Weston Chapman for a brief sketch of a few words of the history of the American & Foreign Anti-Slavery Society "from the separation in 1840 to the present time." John Bishop Estlin's opponent, Mr. Young, "as undergone an influence that may be correctly termed Scobleism, & is fully possessed with the belief that 'Am. & For. A.S. Soc.' is an efficient instrumentality." However, this "Scobleizing" has not made him a hater of Garrison. Some prejudiced people "are beginning to open their eyes to the shameful injustice systematically perpetrated for years against Mr. Garrison by Jos. Sturge & John Scoble. [William] Wells] Brown and the Crafts are helping on the change of opinion." Estlin summarizes a series of newspaper articles that he is sending Maria Weston Chapman.