[Letter to] Dear Friend
Contributors: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, recipient; Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882, recipient
Series: Maria Weston Chapman Correspondence (1835-1885)
Published: 1843
Place of publication: Boston, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women abolitionists; Society of Individual Inquiry and Reform; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

This circular letter announces the formation of the "Society of Universal Inquiry and Reform." The society will concentrate for the present time on "the right of individual property and its influence upon society." In this letter, John Anderson Collins includes a list of 22 questions which the addressees are requested to answer. For example: "The number of capitalists with over five hundred dollars and their average income." A special meeting for the discussion of private property will take place in Worcester, March 28-29, and the first annual meeting in New York is in May.

John Anderson Collins is the corresponding secretary of the Society of Universal Inquiry and Reform.

On the verso, this manuscript has the delivery address: M.W. Chapman & Caroline Weston, Boston, Mass.