[Letter to] Dear Mrs. Chapman
Contributors: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, recipient
Series: Maria Weston Chapman Correspondence (1835-1885)
Published: 1857
Place of publication: 21 Cornhill, Boston, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; American Anti-Slavery Society; Anti-slavery fairs; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Samuel May, Jr., has inquired about the use of Horticultural Hall on School Street, Boston, for the anti-slavery bazaar and reports on the negotiations about the price. On March 9th, Mary Estlin sent Samuel May a copy of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's letter to Lord Shaftesbury, Lord Carlisle, Joseph Sturge, etc., "relative to her use of the English Anti-Slavery funds confided to her care." This letter was entrusted to a Mr. Devell and only reached Samuel May today. Mrs. Stowe sent her letter care of Joseph Sturge, who sent it on "to the select few only and suppressed it to the general." The reason for the suppression was Mrs. Stowe's eulogy of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Miss Estlin "lays on us a special injunction not to let it [the letter] get into print."