[Letter to] My Dear Friend
Contributors: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885 recipient
Series: Maria Weston Chapman Correspondence (1835-1885)
Published: 1845
Place of publication: Dedham, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed with initials.

This letter is about Edmund Quincy's speech at F.H. [Faneuil Hall?], with the most important parts written out from memory. He especially wanted to write out "the part about Judge S. ... I did not think you could put in the licks in a professional way quite as well as I who knew something of the tender places. The part about S[c]roggs & Jeffries particularly I wanted just right." Edmund Quincy warned the other abolitionists "never to let a New Organizer pull them out of the river---because they might be sure it was only done for the purpose of having them to strangle." Edmund Quincy wishes the mob had put him down, "for I deserved it for being in such company."