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Half of the last page of this letter was torn off.

Maria Weston Chapman writes about the weather, the food, and the people she met on a ship going to Europe. She met a young man named Palmer from N. York City, who said that the anti-slavery sentiment had increased. Chapman reminisces about the organization of the anti-slavery society in that city, and the hiring of Oliver Johnson as the editor of the National Anti-Slavery Standard. She quotes Harriet Martineau on the definition of genius.