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Letter from James Miller M'Kim, Philadelphia, [Pa.], to William Lloyd Garrison, May 21st [1864]

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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Manuscript composed upon stationary bearing the typeset letterhead of the "Freedmen's Relief Association, No. 424 Walnut Street, Philadelphia."James Miller M'Kim informs William Lloyd Garrison of his wife's voyage itinerary for Boston, and requests that Garrison have his son, William, meet her upon her arrival. M'Kim is impelled to offer two typographical corrections for errors in his previous letter which "annoy" him. M'Kim confides in Garrison that he "can't tell how it hurts" for him to "collide with [Wendell] Phillips" after so many years of friendship and admiration. M'Kim wishes Garrison a "safe deliverance" from the New England Convention.
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