Letter from Jane Wigham, Edinburgh, [Scotland], to Maria Weston Chapman, 16/11/[18]47

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Letter from Jane Wigham, Edinburgh, [Scotland], to Maria Weston Chapman, 16/11/[18]47

Wigham, Jane

Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885

1847-11-16

Holograph, signed.

Jane Wigham sends the list of contributions that are in the box being sent from Edinburgh. The box will sail in the packet ship from Liverpool on the 19th. She comments on some of the items included in the box. Many distinguished autographs may be had there. She mentions the knitted caps made by the daughter of Judge Marshall, formerly of Nova Scotia. Wigham asks if J. S. Buckingham's "Invocation" will arrive in time for the Liberty Bell. The list of contributions from Sarah and B. Hilditch is enclosed; they send a Welsh doll for Frederick Douglass. The amount of goods this year is short of last year, most of the contributors having worked for local bazaars. Wigham alludes to "the course our friend George Thompson intends to pursue." Wigham asks what Maria Weston Chapman thinks of the free labor movement. She remarks on the adversity suffered by many friends.

This date is inferred.

Anti-slavery fairs

Depressions--1847

Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century

Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence

Autographs

Depressions

Antislavery movements--United States

Women abolitionists--United States

Liberty bell (Boston, Mass.)

Wigham, Jane

Buckingham, James Silk 1786-1855

Hilditch, Sarah

Thompson, George 1804-1878

Free Soil Party (U.S.)

Chapman, Maria Weston 1806-1885

Digital Commonwealth

English

text

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/cv43qd418

1847-11-16

Digital Commonwealth

Anti-slavery fairs

Depressions--1847

Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century

Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence

Autographs

Depressions

Antislavery movements--United States

Women abolitionists--United States

Liberty bell (Boston, Mass.)

Chapman, Maria Weston 1806-1885

Wigham, Jane

Buckingham, James Silk 1786-1855

Hilditch, Sarah

Thompson, George 1804-1878

Free Soil Party (U.S.)