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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript contains purple postmarked stamp that says "Garrison Mss."Angelina Emily Grimkè writes to Elizabeth Pease Nichol regarding her mother's death. She writes, "For many years Sister S and myself have done all we could to induce our beloved Mother to regard Slavery as a great sin, and to wash her hands of all its pollutions but our father were vain--and now that she has been taken from us, & we were not permitted to gather round her dying body we feel as if the language of our hearts was that of the Poolmist, 'I was dumb, I found not my mouth, because thou did it.' " She writes of never receiving a box by Jane Smith. She has read a chapter by W. Howitt titled "the English in India." She praises a prospectus issued by the British India Society, stating the society "has claimed a large share of our sympathy & we most heartily bid you God speed." She continues to write that "we were very glad to see that the subject of free products was again agitated in England...we...have been grieved that our brother Wm L Garrison should have so completely abandoned the noble position he once occupied on the subject." She writes that she believes Great Britain should refuse American cotton and should only buy East India cottion. She writes of news of "gentlemen in Tennessee proposing to form a new free state and of eastern Tennessee &...

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