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Letter to] Mrs. Chapman, Dear Madam [manuscript

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Holograph, signedOn pages 1-2 of this manuscript, there is a letter from William Cooper Nell to Maria Weston Chapman. Nell presents a request from the Committee of the Adelphic Union [of colored people] that Mrs. Chapman deliver a lecture about the value and necessity of cultivating a taste for knowledge. Miss [Sarah M.?] Grimke previously lectured to the Adelphic UnionOn page 3 of this manuscript, there is a letter from Maria Weston Chapman to John Pierpont. For want of time, Maria W. Chapman has been unable to comply with Mr. William C. Nell's request to present a lecture. Chapman entreats John Pierpont "in behalf of these excellent persons" to deliver the desired lecture
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  1. Adelphic Union
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806 1885
  4. Nell, William C. (William Cooper), 1816 1874
  5. Pierpont, John, 1785 1866
  6. Slaver
  7. Women
  8. Women Abolitionists

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