Holograph, signed with initials.

Maria Weston Chapman repeats a conversation that took place at Aunt Cynthia's about Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd Garrison. She refers to "the same old difference that I noticed between Garrison & Phillips whin I came back in '55." She asks if Anne G. Chapman Dicey has heard Emily Dickinson. Chapman remarks about Dickinson: "Our Boston papers are loud in her praises." Chapman describes people she saw in Weymouth and tells of her conversation with young John Loud. She tells how she has been spending her days: "I check myself in speech at home, lest my satisfaction,--remarks,--political opinions,--or conversation of any kind might give pain. I Bless my stars daily & hourly that the stress of life & death for thirty years under the responsibilities of the cause, has not left me either denaturee or deterioree; ..." Chapman expected to be much discouraged at the time of her husband's death and was much astonished that she wasn't. She thinks that differences in reaction are largely a matter of health. She says that Caroline, Emma, and Anne Weston need a social life and distractions. She mentions Mr. Schiefflin(?), a friend of Artemas Ward.

This letter was written on top of a printed circular letter announcing the resumed publication of the Liberty Bell. The announcement was written by Maria Weston Chapman and dated 1857, Weymouth.