Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Roxbury, [Mass.], to Wendell Phillips Garrison, Dec. 18, 1867
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Holograph, signed with initials.William Lloyd Garrison has accepted Oliver Johnson's invitation to come to New York and stay at Mrs. Sarah S. Savin's boarding house. He has an appointment with Mrs. Vizcarrondo, so he won't be able to go to Orange until late afternoon. He describes a meeting in Cambridge at which Charles Eliot Norton presided, and Richard Henry Dana made an address on behalf of the freedmen's cause. Garrison gives family news and reports the birth of James Mott Hallowell. Garrison writes: "William has been doing a very satisfactory business in wool the present month."Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.5, no.226.
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- Abolitionists
- Antislavery Movements
- Correspondence
- Dana, Richard Henry, Jr. 1815 1882
- Freedmen
- Garrison, Wendell Phillips 1840 1907
- Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
- Garrison, William Lloyd 1838 1909
- Hallowell, James Mott 1867 1928
- History
- Johnson, Oliver 1809 1889
- Norton, Charles Eliot 1827 1908
- Savin, Sarah S
- Slaver
- United States