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Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, New York, to Helen Eliza Garrison, Oct. 21, 1861

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Holograph, signed with initials.William Lloyd Garrison describes a dismal train ride in the rain and heat. He was warmly welcomed by Mr. & Mrs. Oliver Johnson. He went to Brooklyn with Oliver Johnson and Wendell Phillips Garrison, and they heard Henry Ward Beecher preach. Beecher's sermon was a racy discourse on conscience. John Murray Forbes of Milton and Mrs. Francis George Shaw (i.e. Sarah Blake Sturgis Shaw) of Staten Island were in the congregation. William L. Garrison shook hands with old Dr. Lyman Beecher, who is now in "a state of second childhood." William L. Garrison spoke with Henry Ward Beecher and was warmly greeted by Theodore Tilton and his wife. He had tea last evening with Alice and Phoebe Cary; Horace Greeley was present and they discussed the peace question. William L. Garrison attended George Barrell Cheever's church and thought his discourse on the Constitution was "wonderfully absurd." William Goodell "enjoyed it to the brim."
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Beecher, Henry Ward 1813 1887
  4. Beecher, Lyman 1775 1863
  5. Cary, Alice 1820 1871
  6. Cary, Phoebe 1824 1871
  7. Cheever, George B. (George Barrell) 1807 1890
  8. Correspondence
  9. Forbes, John Murray 1813 1898
  10. Garrison, Helen Eliza 1811 1876
  11. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  12. Goodell, William 1792 1878
  13. Greeley, Horace 1811 1872
  14. History
  15. Johnson, Oliver 1809 1889
  16. Shaw, Sarah Blake Sturgis 1815 1902
  17. Slaver
  18. Tilton, Theodore 1835 1907
  19. United States

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