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099 $aMs.A.9.2 v.13, p.49
100 1 $aKnight, Anne.
245 10 $a[Letter to] My dear M. Chapman$h[manuscript].
260 $a[Chelmsford], England,$c4/8 [18]40.
300 $a1 leaf (4 p.) ;$c9 x 7 1/4 in.
500 $aHolograph, signed.
500 $aAnne Knight writes to Maria Weston Chapman: "How much have we felt they absence during our convention..." With much indignation, Anne Knight condemns the exclusion of women at the so called World's Convention in London. She quotes James Cropper as saying: "...it is no use talking Anne the men are gone to sleep & it is impossible to rouse them you must go forth." [Quoted in part in William Lloyd Garrison, New York, 1885-9, vol. II., p. 367.] She asserts that the scientific congresses of France are men & women membered myself being a member & having addressed them at Liege & Blois on the subject of slavery..." Anne Knight begs Maria W. Chapman to send "the emphatic question across the Atlantic from thy strong pen to our exclusives at Broad Street--- ..."
600 10 $aChapman, Maria Weston,$d1806-1885$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aKnight, Anne$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aCropper, James,$d1773-1840.
650 0 $aWomen's rights.
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: 4