[Incomplete letter to] My dearest friend
Contributors: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, recipient
Series: Maria Weston Chapman Correspondence (1835-1885)
Published: 1853
Place of publication: Oxford Terrace
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; American Anti-Slavery Society; Women abolitionists; Education; African Americans; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph.

The end of this letter is missing. Eliza Lee Cabot Follen tells what is on her mind in regard to a school for colored pupils planned by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. She agrees with Maria Chapman, but considers that "this is Mrs. Stowe's affair" and that she will probably have her own way in any case. Follen is in favor of the school plan and believes that the education of free colored people is a step toward their freedom. She believes Mrs. Maria Chapman is not "quite moonstruck enough" to believe that she can induce Mrs. Stowe to deliver the money raised by her friends "for her to use as she thinks best" into the hands of the American Anti-Slavery Society. She suggests advising Mrs. Stowe to place the money in the hands of the trustees to be used for the education of colored men or women in any school or college in America or Europe to which they can obtain admittance.