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Letter from William Henry Fish, South Scituate, [Massachusetts], to Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, 1881 July 6

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Fish, William H. (William Henry)

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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript contains pencil annotations that say "[Theodore Parker] Als re him" and "To FB Sanborn" and "Boston" and "Very good."William Henry Fish writes to Franklin Benjamin Sanborn in regards to Theodore Parker's wife leaving her husband's manuscripts to Sanborn. He writes of his hope that "something valuable would be culled from them." He writes that he would like to help with circulating Parker's works. He reminisces about the "fatal lecturing campaign of '[18]57 or '[185]8" and the attendance of many abolitionists.
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Beecher, Henry Ward 1813 1887
  4. Correspondence
  5. Curtis, George William 1824 1892
  6. Fish, William H. (William Henry)
  7. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  8. Greeley, Horace 1811 1872
  9. Higginson, Thomas Wentworth 1823 1911
  10. History
  11. Lectures And Lecturing
  12. Parker, Lydia Dodge Cabot
  13. Parker, Theodore 1810 1860
  14. Phillips, Wendell 1811 1884
  15. Pierpont, John 1785 1866
  16. Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin) 1831 1917
  17. Slaver
  18. Stowe, Harriet Beecher 1811 1896
  19. United States

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