Copy of letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Boston, [Mass.], to James Mott and Lucretia Mott, Jan. 10, 1848
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Copy. Whereabouts of original manuscript unknown. Presumably in the hand of Wendell Phillips Garrison.William Lloyd Garrison thanks James Mott and Lucretia Mott for allowing their names to be added in support of the call for the Anti-Sabbath Convention. He hopes that Charles C. Burleigh will write a tract on the history of the seventh-day Sabbath. He praises Edward M. Davis, the son-in-law of the Motts. Garrison thanks the Motts for their gift that was enclosed in their letter. He marvels at Lucretia's endurance as a public speaker in Ohio.Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.3, no.224.
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- Abolitionists
- Antislavery Movements
- Burleigh, Charles C. (Charles Calistus) 1810 1878
- Correspondence
- Davis, Edward Morris 1811 1887
- Garrison, Wendell Phillips 1840 1907
- Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
- History
- Mott, James 1788 1868
- Mott, Lucretia 1793 1880
- Sabbath
- Slaver
- United States