[Letter to] My dear Mrs. Chapman
Contributors: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, recipient
Series: Maria Weston Chapman Correspondence (1835-1885)
Published: 1847
Place of publication: Bristol, [England]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Number of pages: 12
Subjects: Correspondence; Liberty bell (Boston, Mass.); Newspapers; Poetry; Anti-slavery fairs; Abolitionists; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Mary Carpenter sent two boxes by different steamers. Because of the needs of the Irish, it was thought best this year not to make a public appeal. Nevertheless, a number of voluntary contributions came in, and the "little exhibition" held in Mary Carpenter's drawing room was visited by more than 200 persons. She tells of the indignation felt by Carpenter's class of "ragged boys & girls" who, thinking of the United States as the land of slavery, "were astonished that it was inhabited by Englishmen!" Carpenter calls attention to a packet of tracts sent in the box. "Such writing as often appears in the A.S. papers would probably do more in England to put back the cause than to advance it." She mentions as an example an article on Elihu Burritt in the Liberator. Mary Carpenter's three brothers could not conscientiously sign the Unitarian address. Carpenter offers lines [a poem] for the Liberty Bell, which she wishes to have reprinted in Howitt's Journal. [Mary Carpenter's poem, "Offerings of English Women," appeared in the Liberty Bell for 1848, p. 238-242.] Carpenter would like Mr. [Samuel] May to get them into the Christian Register and Christian World. She remarks enthusiastically on a portrait of Dr. Channing, apparently in the possession of Mr. Estlin.