Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Roxbury, [Mass.], to Samuel Joseph May, Dec. 10, 1865
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Holograph, signed.William Lloyd Garrison was much gratified to learn that George Thompson's lecture in Samuel Joseph May's church was well received. George Thompson has numerous lecturing engagements for January and February; Garrison is worried for Thompson's health. George Thompson "is always ready to comply with friendly or professional overtures, if possible, and especially to lose no opportunity to secure pecuniary aid for his family,---all the more as his match enterprise gives no promise, at present, of paying success." Garrison thanks Samuel Joseph May for insuring his (William Lloyd Garrison's) life. Garrison's lecture tour was carried out without "any mishap." Garrison was present at the wedding of his son Wendell Phillips Garrison and Lucy McKim. He praises Rev. William Henry Furness, who officiated the wedding ceremony. He refers to Samuel Joseph May's legal incapacity to officiate at Fanny Garrison's wedding. He would like to have Samuel J. May present, but he does not want him to risk his health by taking a long journey in winter. Garrison discourses on turning age sixty today. Charlotte Coffin is staying with the Garrisons.Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.5, no.148.
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- Abolitionists
- Antislavery Movements
- Correspondence
- Furness, William Henry 1802 1896
- Garrison, Lucy Mc Kim 1842 1877
- Garrison, Wendell Phillips 1840 1907
- Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
- History
- Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
- May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph) 1797 1871
- Slaver
- Thompson, George 1804 1878
- United States
- Villard, Fanny Garrison 1844 1928