[Letter to] My dearest Mrs. Chapman
Contributors: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885. recipient
Series: Maria Weston Chapman Correspondence (1835-1885)
Published: 1851
Place of publication: Park Street, [Bristol, England]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society; Women abolitionists; History; Society of Friends; Slavery; Antislavery movements
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Mary Anne Estlin thanks Maria Weston Chapman for her letter and for supplying what "ought to convince all who are open to conviction, & to prevent their puzzling themselves further as to why oil & water don't unite." The Quakers are "in an increasing state of effervescence, & I am prepared for their all withdrawing from our Committee..." Mary A. Estlin is sending, via an acquaintance named Miss Coates, a copy of John Bigelow's Jamaica, with a long letter from Mr. Webb in it. [The book mentioned is entitled: Jamaica in 1850; or the Effects of Sixteen Years of Freedom on a Slave Colony.] Estlin said: "The interest of the cause rest on my unaided hands." The severance from the Broad Street Society has not yet been accomplished. She mentions a Miss Goodwin who has "susceptibility of cultivation," presumably as the result of her brother's conversation with Maria Weston Chapman. After mentioning a Mr. Clark, "who writes such nonsense in the Examiner," Mary A. Estlin comments that "there is something very gratifying in having such a meagre set of opposition letters, & those only from quakers!"

Included is the accompanying envelope, with the delivery address: Mrs. Chapman, 17 Rue de Clichy, Paris.