[Letter to] My dear friend
Contributors: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, recipient
Series: Maria Weston Chapman Correspondence (1835-1885)
Published: 1839
Place of publication: Fall River, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Anti-slavery fairs; Depressions; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; New England Non-Resistance Society; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

In this letter, Elizabeth Buffum Chace introduces her sister Lydia Buffum, who is going to Boston with articles for the anti-slavery fair. She fears the present state of the money market "will prevent the success which would otherwise attend this effort." Elizabeth Buffum Chace is "ready to join the non-resistance society as far as entire belief in its doctrines goes but I feel that I am not ready to promise to obey them always in spirit as well as in letter."