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008 090115s1857 xx 000 i eng d
033 00 $a18570701
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040 $aBRL
099 $aMs.A.9.2 v.29, p.11A
100 1 $aWebb, Richard Davis,$d1805-1872.
245 10 $a[Letter to] Dear Mrs. Chapman$h[manuscript].
260 $aDrimnaugh Cottage, Dublin, [Ireland],$cJuly 1, 1857.
300 $a1 leaf (4 p.) ;$c10 1/8 x 7 7/8 in.
500 $aHolograph, signed.
500 $aParker Pillsbury asks if his coming over here as an agent would be useful. Richard D. Webb emphasizes the "feebleness and timidity of the anti-slavery spirit" in the United Kingdom. He recalls a conversation about Edmund Quincy's free application of Bible language. Webb writes: "Well, British touchiness on this point is amazingly sensitive. Formalism is powerful, and those who are not formal care little for anti-slavery." Webb explains that he is almost isolated. The fact that a man stopped at his house would "make him suspected by the 'religious' people." Parker Pillsbury's "high flown, somewhat hyperbolical style" would frighten the timid, religious class and shock the taste of the upper class of educated people. Some who express "a warm personal regard for our friend" thought that his coming as an agent would "hardly be of substantial benefit." Since Richard D. Webb parted from Maria Weston Chapman's sisters Caroline, Anne, and Emma in Rome, he has not heard from any of them.
600 10 $aChapman, Maria Weston,$d1806-1885$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aWebb, Richard Davis,$d1805-1872$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aPillsbury, Parker,$d1809-1898.
650 0 $aAbolitionists$zEngland.
650 0 $aAntislavery movements$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aWomen abolitionists$zMassachusetts$zBoston$y19th century$vCorrespondence.
655 0 $aLetters.
655 0 $aManuscripts.
700 1 $aChapman, Maria Weston,$d1806-1885,$erecipient.
830 0 $aMaria Weston Chapman Correspondence (1835-1885)
999 $ashots: 2