[Partial letter to unknown person]
Series: Maria Weston Chapman Correspondence (1835-1885)
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph.

This manuscript begins with "P.S.," but seems to be too long to be the postscript of a letter. This unsigned letter was presumably written by Maria Weston Chapman. Chapman thinks Theodore Parker lacks moral courage and cites an example of a meeting in which he did not dare to ask his audience for signatures to anti-slavery petitions. Chapman says "the atmosphere of Cambridge was never good for the salvation of a nation." She discusses Dr. [William Ellery] Channing. Chapman comments: "He had neither insight, foresight, moral courage, or firmness, & he just suited [those] as deficient as himself."