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Letter from Maria Weston Chapman, [Boston?, Mass.], to Caroline Weston, Aug. 6th, 1842

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Holograph, signed with initials.Maria Weston Chapman explains that the reason that Mr. & Mrs. Chapman, Sr., did not come was that they were ill. Henry G. Chapman is more comfortable, but no stronger. "He takes to reading more." Maria Chapman has read a good deal. She tells of an incident about Edmund Quincy and a picnic in Dedham. On page two of the letter, Maria gives a list of books that she has read, with brief critical comments.
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  1. Antislavery Movements
  2. Boston
  3. Chapman, Henry Grafton 1804 1842
  4. Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
  5. Correspondence
  6. History
  7. Massachusetts
  8. Quincy, Edmund 1808 1877
  9. Slaver
  10. United States
  11. Weston, Caroline 1808 1882
  12. Women
  13. Women Abolitionists

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