Letter from Mary Anne Estlin, Bristol, [England], to James Miller M'Kim, 1853 June 26

Mary Anne Estlin writes to James Miller McKim regarding her father's health condition. She writes, "His medical friends think it safest for him thus to follow inclination & to give himself up to rest as long as he feels indisposed for exertion." She also writes of letters from various mutual friends on antislavery news. She writes, "I hope you have received..'The Advocate.' R.D. Webb says he could not help laying to take F. Douglass down a peg or two, & he is sure Douglass suspects Mr. Chapman of having written the obnoxious article & is unconsequently uncited."
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