[Letter to] My dear friend
Contributors: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, recipient
Series: Maria Weston Chapman Correspondence (1835-1885)
Published: 1842
Place of publication: London, [England]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women's rights; Women abolitionists; Corn laws (Great Britain); Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Anne Knight repeats her sister Ria's remark on Americans appearing to be "in complete bondage to each other high & low nothing but panic dread or what this & that may say of them an interminable fear of bad consequences..." Elizabeth Pease is condemned for a while to her couch. Anne Knight advocates the idea of women helping men make better laws: "...will you not aid us in the struggle of might against right?" Anne Knight says: "Our corn-law blaze at Manchester will I fear be a disappointment they seem to make so little impression on the house with its 121 tory majority."