"Holograph, signed. In this letter, Maria Weston Chapman refers contemptuously to the \"attempted rehabilitation\" of the damaged reputation of Mayor Lyman by his son Theodore Lyman. She also severely criticizes a similar attempt to represent Dr. William Ellery Channing as the head of the anti-slavery movement. Chapman briefly refers to the Boston Public Library. Includes envelope with the delivery address: \"The Reverend Samuel May, Leicester, Mass'tts.\" Enclosed, there is a typed transcript of this manuscript; transcribed by the Boston Public Library."
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"Letter from Maria Weston Chapman, Weymouth, [Mass.], to Samuel May, June 3, 1881"
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creators
"Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885 (Author); May, Samuel, Jr., 1810-1899 (Addressee)"