Wigham, Eliza

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Holograph, signed.Title supplied by cataloger.Envelope includes original postage stamp and notes in May's hand on the reverse.Miss Wigham says that William Lloyd Garrison "aims more to clear the Administration and to prove that the secession is a rebellion than to illustrate his own position." She says that England rejoiced at President Lincoln's proposal for a gradual emancipation of the slaves. She disapproves of Oliver Johnson's exclusion of Harriet Martineau's letter from the "National Anti-Slavery Standard." Miss Wigham says that George Thompson had no influence in England.

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