[Letter to] My dear Leonce
Contributors: Laugel, Leonce, recipient
Series: Maria Weston Chapman Correspondence (1835-1885)
Published: 1877
Place of publication: Weymouth, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women abolitionists; Blackwood's magazine; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed with initials.

Maria Weston Chapman writes that her sister, Dora [a nickname for Debora Weston], is "making a H. M. Review - book." [H.M. is perhaps a reference to Harriet Martineau.] Chapman accuses Blackwood's Magazine of Toryism. She criticizes "The Spectator." She discusses Harriet Martineau's difficulties with Dr. Greenwood and James Martineau(?). She protests against the attack on Miss Martineau by the two aforementioned magazines. She talks about her own critical work.