Letter from Charlotte to Samuel Cowles, 1835 April 15.

Letter from Charlotte Cowles in Farmington, Connecticut, to her brother Samuel Cowles in Boston, Massachusetts. She mentioned the death of Cousin Timothy Cowles mother, a letter from Henry Brewster Stanton informing Amos Phelps of the destruction of a church after an anti-slavery meeting held outside Rochester, New York, and several sermons on abolition. Noah Porter, pastor the First Congregational Church in Farmington, in which he compared two types of abolitionists--immediate versus gradual emancipation. Mr. Ogden preached the next week and it was anti-abolition. The abolitionists in Farmington were not deterred and continued to distribute literature where ever they could. Simeon Hart ran a boys school in Farmington, and his students gave an exhibition of their talents including musical pieces and reading from compositions. She closed with news Cousin Chauncey having a son, and her interest in reading two anti-slavery publications that recently arrived.