[Letter to] My dear friend
Contributors: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, recipient
Series: Maria Weston Chapman Correspondence (1835-1885)
Published: 1847
Place of publication: Northfleet House, [London?, England]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Freedmen; Women abolitionists; History; Slavery; Antislavery movements
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Esther Sturge wishes that all abolitionists would abstain from "speaking against any part of [the] holy scriptures or making light of our precious redeemer, every way it is wrong, and only weakens the great and good work, in which I am quite ready to believe every one who engages in it, is sincere." She praises Frederick Douglass. She gives arguments against buying slaves out of bondage. She tells about debt-ridden planters in the West Indies who are freeing their slaves. Sturge describes the misfortunes of Irish families that she knows.