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Maria Weston Chapman writes that Loring Moody was appointed general agent, in place of Charles King Whipple, who resigned. Hollis Street Church wanted Ephraim Peabody "whereupon Francis [Jackson?] & Sam. May senior had protested." The church now wants a pro-slavery preacher. Chapman wrote to England regarding items for the anti-slavery fair. She lists the contributions for the fair. She got two barrels of sugar from a Captain Moses of New Orleans. There are sixteen cases of smallpox at Brook Farm. Chapman fumigated a letter from there in vinegar steam. Chapman writes: "E[lizur] Wright is rubbing hard against the Committee in the new paper--'the Free State rally,' like a cat in a catnip garden." Elizur Wright is "wretchedly poor."