[Letter to] My dear friend
Contributors: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, recipient
Series: Maria Weston Chapman Correspondence (1835-1885)
Published: 1851
Place of publication: Northfleet, [England]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed with initials.

Esther Sturge asks Mrs. Maria Weston Chapman: "Did you see the reply of the Austrian minister to the address from America on the Hungarian cause?" It "reflects so justly on the disgrace of the Americans; asks how they can, holding 3,000,000 of Bondsmen (Slaves) affect to legislate for Austria & meddle with her institutions etc." The fugitive slave Henson was cleared and "found truly honest." Esther Sturge deplores that private sentiments should mar the unity of anti-slavery efforts. Sturge asks if Maria W. Chapman's brother is fully recovered, "and how is thy dear Son?" Esther Sturge asks: "Have you met with my dear sister."