[Letter to] Dear Bella
Contributors: Weston, Deborah, b.1814 recipient
Series: Maria Weston Chapman Correspondence (1835-1885)
Published: 1835
Place of publication: [Boston, Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed with initials.

Maria Weston Chapman reflects on people who want to "feel the comfort of being a trampled minority after the time has gone by, and they are the party in power." She describes the effect of the current state of apprehension among the circle. Maria W. Chapman's own house was watched because of the cries heard, "To Mrs. Chapman's!" She tells of "run-away rings" at her door [people who run away after ringing her door]. In one case, the ringer later turned out to have been "Willie Garrison," sent to fetch Mrs. Maria Chapman to Ann Terry Greene [Phillips]'s house, who did not feel safe.