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Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Roxbury, [Mass.], to Oliver Johnson, June 2, 1872

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Holograph, signed with initials.Letter written in pencil.William Lloyd Garrison received two letters from Oliver Johnson about Mrs. Oliver Johnson's great physical suffering and the hopelessness of her case. Garrison feels that death is a "joyful liberation of the spirit from its clayey tenement." Garrison is suffering from "spinal weakness and inflammation." He hasn't yet decided whether he will go to the Progressive Friends' meeting in Longwood, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Mary Ashton Livermore will be one of the speakers at the meeting.Accompanied by an envelope addressed to Oliver Johnson, Tribune Office, New York City.
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Correspondence
  4. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  5. History
  6. Johnson, Mary Ann White 1808 1872
  7. Johnson, Oliver 1809 1889
  8. Livermore, Mary A. (Mary Ashton) 1820 1905
  9. Slaver
  10. Society Of Friends
  11. United States

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