[Letter] To Mrs. Chapman, Dear Madam
Contributors: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, recipient
Series: Maria Weston Chapman Correspondence (1835-1885)
Published: 1857
Place of publication: Phil[adelphia], [Penn.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

If Maria Weston Chapman thinks that the articles which A.L. Otis has sent are of any value to the cause, she is free to make use of them. In answer to a query, A. L. Otis explains: "A. L. Otis is not my own name but a nom de plume, and I have never, out of my immediate family, allowed it to be known whom that name represents. If it should ever be divulged accidentally, there will be an end to all literary effort on my part. I should be paralyzed---and as much depends upon my continuing to write. I guard my secret jealously." If this seems suspicious to Maria W. Chapman, then the articles must be sent back to A. L. Otis.