Holograph, signed.

Jane Wigham gives various reasons why the local contributions to the Boston Christmas Bazaar cannot be very numerous this year. Wigham explains that the enclosed stanzas and poem are by a young man and a friend of hers, which Maria Weston Chapman may use or not, as she wishes. The Stoke Newington Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society has also been seeking contributions for a Boston fair; Jane Wigham fears there will be confusion, but she does not wish to "stir-up any party disturbances in this country by calling attention to the distinction between the two [societies]."