[Partial letter to Maria Weston Chapman?]
Contributors: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, recipient
Series: Maria Weston Chapman Correspondence (1835-1885)
Published: 1846
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women abolitionists; Anti-slavery fairs; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph.

This is a fragment of a letter by Richard Davis Webb, perhaps written to Maria Weston Chapman. See Call No. Ms.A.9.2 v.22, p.109, a letter by Richard Davis Webb to Maria Weston Chapman, Oct. 31, 1846, that may possibly be rest of this manuscript.

James Haughton told Richard Davis Webb that his daughter had a box of her own made up (for the Boston anti-slavery fair?). He mentions a piece of work by Sarah Haughton, representing the queen sitting in state, which is valued at fifty dollars. He names other prospective donors. Richard D. Webb is donating a copy of the first publication of Milton's poems of 1643, a copy of Junstinian's Institutes from the press of Peter Scheffer [Schoeffer], and a medallion of Henry Grattan, an Irish patriot, by William Mossop. George Thompson and his wife, Andrew Paton, and others are expected to see William Lloyd Garrison off. Thompson looks ill and complains of bad health. Richard D. Webb praises his adherence to principle. The Evangelical Alliance will do little to harm the anti-slavery cause in comparison with the good it has done.