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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.In this letter to William Lloyd Garrison, George Thompson describes his visit to Plymouth, New Hampshire, including his "giving three lectures to quiet, respectable, and very intelligent audiences." He also mentions his stay with Nathaniel Peabody Rogers, who Thompson calls, "a charmng man - as a companion I hardly know a man with superior endowments." Thompson then notes his "adventures in Concord [New Hampshire]" and his "escape from the ignorant & murderous rabble that clamored & thirsted for my blood," believing it "providential." He adds that John Greenleaf Whittier "was compelled to recieve a tithe of the vengeance accumulated for me" and comments on the attitudes of some Northern newspapers to the abolition cause, pointing out that the Boston Courier's editor, Joseph Buckingham, "evidently cares little for the South." Thompson then passes along news from Samuel May who told him "that a recent Southern paper had stated that if the prominent fanatics were not put down by the strong arm of the Law in the North, assassinations would cease to be reprehensible or dishonorable." He encourages Garrison to write more articles but cautions that "there is now enough excitement ... this is the time for a full, dignified, and explicit development of our principles, and a calm retrospect of the course we have pursued." Thompson then remarks that Wesleyan University President Wilbur Fisk is sailing to England to raise "money for the University of white skins in Middletown" and is attempting "to rekindle the dying embers...

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