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Holograph, signed with initials.Maria Weston Chapman writes that "we are a distressed household," waiting for news from Rome, since hearing from Mr. Joshua Bates that Emma had been summoned by telegraph because Lucia was expected to live but a few days. Rosamond, Helen, and Wazzy (the children of R. Warren Weston) are here with their mother. Deacon Moses just died. Chapman says: "The war goes on & probably will go on as the disaster at Bull Run did but add fuel to the flame. People now rush to centers of enlistment, & insist on being enregimente, & everybody declares that the United States are the better for being beaten, if beaten they were." Chapman goes on to say that Wendell Phillips is "more & more eloquent, & less & less practically sensible, as it seems to me, & more a hunter of popularity. But matters are now safe from the shortcomings of overreachings of Abolitionists. ...for the bulk of the people have taken it in charge." Chapman writes: "All the pro-slavery newspapers are dying off like flies." Henry Cowing was not hurt at the battle of Bull Run, but is missing and believed to be a prisoner at Manassas Junction. Mr. [John] Jay delivered a 4th of July oration on "the great conspiracy & England's neutrality." He does not, however, accuse England of seeking to break up the United States, as Wendell Phillips does. Chapman criticizes Wendell's policy as silly. Dr. [Amos] Farnsworth died at age 72 years. Chapman discusses...

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