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Letter from Maria Weston Chapman, Boston, [Mass.], to Elizur Wright, Oct. 19th, 1837

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Holograph, signed.Maria Weston Chapman has received Elizur Wright's note and must reply in the negative to the questions in the letter. Chapman has written a number of letters to Elizur Wright, but has finally resolved not to send them. She asks if Mr. Williams can get a package, sent by the ladies of Glasgow, from the Custom House.Maria Weston Chapman wrote the following postscript in the margin: "Tell brother [Henry B.] Stanton that (to use one of his own felicitous expressions) 'we are taking the starch out of the sanctified linen' by the dozen."
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  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Boston
  4. Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
  5. Correspondence
  6. Glasgow
  7. History
  8. Massachusetts
  9. Scotland
  10. Slaver
  11. Stanton, Henry B. (Henry Brewster) 1805 1887
  12. United States
  13. Women
  14. Women Abolitionists
  15. Wright, Elizur 1804 1885

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