[Letter to] Mrs. Maria W. Chapman
Contributors: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, recipient
Series: Maria Weston Chapman Correspondence (1835-1885)
Published: 1842
Place of publication: Mansfield Centre, Conn
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Anti-slavery fairs; Abolitionists; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

This letter is signed by both Mrs. Mary L. Phillips and Caroline L. Phillips. They are sending a few small items for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery fair. Their efforts to enlist the ladies of Mansfield in the preparation of a large box of gifts proved "almost a perfect failure." Some preferred to give to the Connecticut fair, while "others did know about the propriety of Ladies being associated with men in such a cause & others were frightened at the cry of Garrison, Women rights, and Non resistance, no Government, & so on."