Copy of letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Roxbury, [Mass.], to Samuel May, March 10, 1867
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Copy of letter, in the hand of another person. Whereabouts of original manuscript unknown.William Lloyd Garrison thinks that Francis Jackson's bequest would best be used "in aid of the Freedmen's Educational Commission." Garrison is planning to go to Europe to see the Paris Exhibition and will return home with Henry and Fanny Villard and Francis Jackson Garrison. William L. Garrison will go as a delegate of the American Freedmen's Aid Commission. His trip depends on Mrs. Garrison's health. He is worried about a sore that has appeared on her paralyzed leg. He plans to reserve passage aboard the "Great Eastern." George Thompson may go with him.
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- Abolitionists
- American Freedmen's Aid Commission
- Antislavery Movements
- Correspondence
- Garrison, Francis Jackson 1848 1916
- Garrison, Helen Eliza 1811 1876
- Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
- History
- Jackson, Francis 1789 1861
- May, Samuel, Jr. 1810 1899
- Phillips, Wendell 1811 1884
- Slaver
- Thompson, George 1804 1878
- United States
- Villard, Fanny Garrison 1844 1928
- Villard, Henry 1835 1900