Letter from Sarah Pugh, Philad[elphi]a, [Penn.], to Maria Weston Chapman, 1/29 [18]48
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Holograph, signed.Sarah Pugh tells of a subject of much thought and discussion that was brought before the Executive Committee (of the Philadedelphia society): "It is proposed to send an agent to G. Britain & Ireland on behalf of our cause,---not one to call large meetings---not a 'lion' but one who would by private intercourse and in the social circle make known our wants interest persons in the cause---and show them how they might aid us." Sarah Pugh asks: "Would it be wise to send our J. Miller Mc'Kim---supposing he would consent to give himself up to the work?" Some are prognosticating a visit to England by James and Lucretia Mott. Sarah Pugh alludes, first humorously, then seriously to "a manner of conducting a Bazaar" which caused great scandal---apparently the raffling of articles at the Boston fair.
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- Abolitionists
- Anti Slavery Fairs
- Antislavery Movements
- Boston
- Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
- Correspondence
- History
- M'kim, J. Miller (James Miller) 1810 1874
- Massachusetts
- Mott, James 1788 1868
- Mott, Lucretia 1793 1880
- Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia
- Pugh, Sarah 1800 1884
- Slaver
- United States
- Women
- Women Abolitionists