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Holograph, signedWilliam Lloyd Garrison tells of his plans for the anniversary meeting. He writes: "I do not wish or intend to make any speech during the meetings. Personally, I am tired of speech-making, and, therefore, am glad that we are apparently so near the end of our great conflict." The speakers for the opening session are: James Renwick Sloane, Theodore Dwight Weld, and Robert Purvis. Theodore Tilton and Wendell Phillips are secured speakers for the evening session. Geritt Smith donated $100 to the American Anti-Slavery Society. Garrison remarks on the great popularity of Anna E. Dickinson. Dr. George Barrell Cheever may offer a prayer at the opening of the meeting. The committee investigating the condition of colored people wants J. M. W. Yerrinton to "report proceedings, &c." in New Orleans. Garrison does not want his name included in the call of the Progressive Friends' meeting. Wendell Phillips is not going to EnglandMerrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison
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- Abolitionists
- American Anti Slavery Society
- Antislavery Movements
- Cheever, George Barrell, 1807 1890
- Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth), 1842 1932
- Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805 1879
- Johnson, Oliver, 1809 1889
- Phillips, Wendell, 1811 1884
- Purvis, Robert, 1810 1898
- Slaver
- Sloane, J. R. W. (James Renwick Wilson), 1823 1886
- Smith, Gerrit, 1797 1874
- Society Of Friends
- Tilton, Theodore, 1835 1907
- Weld, Theodore Dwight, 1803 1895
- Yerrinton, J. M. W. (James Manning Winchell), D. 1893