"Holograph, signed. Maria Weston Chapman writes to her daughter, Elizabeth Bates Chapman [Laugel]: \"We have but 7 weeks or so to be absent, which is but a short time. Meanwhile, I want you to study diligently, & be careful to behave with discretion ...a child always appears better still & silent, than talking. ...\""
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"Letter from Maria Weston Chapman, [Cap Haitien, Haiti], to Elizabeth Bates Chapman Laugel, March 14th, [1841?]"
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creators
"Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885 (Author); Laugel, Elizabeth Bates Chapman, b. 1831 (Addressee)"
