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Singerman ID#supp2194

Letters of Lydia Maria Child, with a Biographical Introduction by John G. Whittier and an Appendix by Wendell Phillips.

Singerman Entry

Singerman ID#supp2194

Child, Lydia Maria. Letters of Lydia Maria Child, with a Biographical Introduction by John G. Whittier and an Appendix by Wendell Phillips. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1883. xxv, 280 p., 16 p. of adv.

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Letter to Mrs. S. B. Shaw (1859) discusses Anna Bishop ("A Jewess she is, of course") and the involvement of the Rothschilds and others to persuade the Emperor of Austria to repeal an unfavorable act by threatening to withdraw from commercial relations with the Austrian Empire (pp. 140-41).