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Letter from Maria Weston Chapman, Weymouth, [Mass.], to Anne Greene Chapman Dicey, July 28, [1862?]

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Holograph, signed with initials.Maria Weston Chapman wrote: "The recruiting goes on slowly. Hesse has enlisted, & 45 others." She doesn't think England will interfere in the Civil War. She says that "little Henry Cowing(?)" has gone to a war camp in Maryland. She criticizes Cassius M. Clay for playing into the hands of an English political faction which favored war. She discusses free trade at length. She mentions a book by Victor Hugo. She says that there is much "politesse proportionee" in the monarchist country.There are two layers of writing, lengthwise and crosswise, on all pages of this manuscript.
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