"Holograph. Maria Weston Chapman is sending this letter in response to a letter she recieved from [Francis Jackson] Garrison. She gives the dates of the publication of \"Right and Wrong in Boston.\" No. 1 is \"a concise statement of events previous & subsequent to the annual meeting of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society\" with the motto from Fenelon: \"Si je vous parle fortement, n'en soyez pas etonne; c'est que la verite est libre et forte.\" She explains the delayed publication date, due to the reluctance of the booksellers. When Francis J. Garrison finds a copy of this number, Maria Chapman will \"thrust in a few notes, -- not needed at the time; but now, by years, made necessary.\" She explains the background of No. 1; society, state, and church all being in bonds of slavery, it seemed \"needful to begin first with Society ...& this was the aim of No. 1.\" She recollects the misgivings of Mr. [Amos Augustus] Phelps and Mary S. Parker, and the final adoption of the publication plan by the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society. Harriet Martineau \"passed through the skirts of the mob--unaware of its nature at the time\" [1835]. Chapman wrote: \"The members of Dr. Channing's congregation were the mob.\" She tells an anecdote of a Mr. Rhodes, who kept a hat store near the scene of the mob, saying that in thirty years he had never seen so many good hats before."
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"Letter from Maria Weston Chapman, Weymouth, [Mass.], to Francis Jackson Garrison, Aug. 9th, 1881"
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"Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885 (Author); Garrison, Francis Jackson, 1848-1916 (Addressee)"
