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Holograph, signedWilliam Lloyd Garrison will not accompany George Thompson to Washington, but he hopes that Oliver Johnson will do so. George Thompson will pay part of Oliver Johnson's expenses. George Thompson's invitation to Washington "is certainly remarkable, and, headed as it is by the Vice President of the United States, and backed up by a long list of prominent Senators and Representatives, indicates how cheering and general is the change in public sentiments." The weather was bad during George Thompson's reception in Henry Ward Beecher's church. Garrison writes: "Mr. Thompson is not always equally eloquent, and does not sustain so even a flight as Mr. Phillips though he often soars much higher; and he writes to me that he has not felt well about the head since he left Boston." Thompson's excessive snuff habit is doing his voice injury. Garrison's wife, Helen, is "gaining steadily, little by little, every week. I trust by summer she will be able to walk." In the postscript, Garrison says that he favors Abraham Lincoln in the coming electionIncludes an envelope with the delivery address: Oliver Johnson, Editor of the Anti-Slavery Standard, 48 Beekman Street, New York City

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