[Letter to] Dear Maria
Contributors: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, recipient
Series: Deborah Weston Correspondence (1830-1879)
Published: 1860
Place of publication: [Boston, Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed with initials.

This letter is concerned with domestic matters. Deborah Weston says about Mary [Gray Chapman]'s condition: "I call her very poorly." She describes Anne [Chapman]'s gowns and appearance. Anne Chapman "longs to get home to Weymouth, ...She has bought Hawthorne's new book to delect herself with tomorrow." [The book mentioned is Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Marble Faun," published in 1860.]