[Letter to] My dear Lizzy
Contributors: Laugel, Elizabeth Bates Chapman, b. 1831, recipient
Series: Maria Weston Chapman Correspondence (1835-1885)
Published: 1841
Place of publication: [Cap Haitien, Haiti]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Maria Weston Chapman writes to her daughter, Elizabeth Bates Chapman [Laugel]: "We have but 7 weeks or so to be absent, which is but a short time. Meanwhile, I want you to study diligently, & be careful to behave with discretion ...a child always appears better still & silent, than talking. ..."