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Letter from James Robie, Edinburgh, [Scotland], to William Lloyd Garrison, [18]67 July 19th

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Robie, James

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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript composed in black ink on white paper with a faint and indistinguishable embossed logo in the head- spine corner. Above the salutation, the number "181" is written in pencil. On the adjacent page, the phrase "James Robie, Edinboro, July 19, '67" is written in pencil vertically, along the spine edge.James Robie writes to William Lloyd Garrison congratulating him on the receiving the "freedom of the city" of Edinburgh. Robie calls the presentation "a signed manifestation of changed opinion ... on the whole American question".
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Correspondence
  4. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  5. History
  6. Robie, James
  7. Scotland
  8. Slaver
  9. Social Reformers
  10. United States

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