[Incomplete letter to] My Dear Friend [manuscript]
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[Incomplete letter to] My Dear Friend [manuscript]
- Publication date
- 1839
- Topics
- Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, Quincy, Edmund, 1808-1877, Alcott, Amos Bronson, 1799-1888, Goodell, William, 1792-1878, Smith, Increase S, New England Non-Resistance Society, Non-resistant, Antislavery movements, Women abolitionists
- Publisher
- Quincy, [Mass.]
- Collection
- bplscas; bostonpubliclibrary; americana
- Contributor
- Boston Public Library
- Language
- English
Holograph
The last part of this letter is missing
On page one of this manuscript there is an image of a slave woman kneeling in chains; the image is repeated four times at the top of the page
Edmund Quincy asks about notices of meetings, the annual reports, etc. He heard that Gerrit Smith couldn't come to the non-resistance meeting. Edmund Quincy "had a very delightful visit the other day from Br[other] May & Mr. Alcott & [a] very good talk."Alcott told of a grandson of General [Nathanael] Greene who has become an abolitionist. He mentions Increase S. Smith and Anna Thaxter as having embraced non-resistance doctrines. He mentions a blunder by William Goodell in his account of the 1837 convention and Lovejoy's murder. Edmund Quincy asks what measures have been take to ensure a fair trial of the fugitive slaves in Hartford. The Massachusetts abolitionists should help them out. He complains of the lack of punctuality in the appearance of the Non-Resistant
The last part of this letter is missing
On page one of this manuscript there is an image of a slave woman kneeling in chains; the image is repeated four times at the top of the page
Edmund Quincy asks about notices of meetings, the annual reports, etc. He heard that Gerrit Smith couldn't come to the non-resistance meeting. Edmund Quincy "had a very delightful visit the other day from Br[other] May & Mr. Alcott & [a] very good talk."Alcott told of a grandson of General [Nathanael] Greene who has become an abolitionist. He mentions Increase S. Smith and Anna Thaxter as having embraced non-resistance doctrines. He mentions a blunder by William Goodell in his account of the 1837 convention and Lovejoy's murder. Edmund Quincy asks what measures have been take to ensure a fair trial of the fugitive slaves in Hartford. The Massachusetts abolitionists should help them out. He complains of the lack of punctuality in the appearance of the Non-Resistant
- Addeddate
- 2010-12-08 13:48:01
- Associated-names
- Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, recipient
- Call number
- 39999066780303
- Camera
- JPEG Processor
- External-identifier
- urn:oclc:record:1046652814
- Foldoutcount
- 0
- Identifier
- incompleteletter00quin3
- Identifier-ark
- ark:/13960/t5cc1t63t
- Ocr
- tesseract 5.3.0-6-g76ae
- Ocr_detected_lang
- lb
- Ocr_detected_lang_conf
- 0.9444
- Ocr_detected_script
- Japanese
- Ocr_detected_script_conf
- 1.0000
- Ocr_module_version
- 0.0.21
- Ocr_parameters
- -l eng
- Openlibrary_edition
- OL25452502M
- Openlibrary_work
- OL16825634W
- Page-progression
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- Page_number_confidence
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- Pages
- 4
- Pdf_module_version
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- Ppi
- 300
- Scandate
- 20101217090545
- Scanner
- fold1.boston.archive.org
- Scanningcenter
- boston
- Source
- bplscas
- Full catalog record
- MARCXML
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