Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Roxbury, [Mass.], to Fanny Garrison Villard, Feb. 1, 1867
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Holograph, signed.Mrs. Helen Eliza Garrison will not let William Lloyd Garrison read the letters that she has written to Fanny Garrison Villard. William L. Garrison had his arm and shoulder examined by Dr. Bigelow, who prescribed "certain local applications." Garrison writes an article every week for The Independent. George Thompson has been substituting for Garrison on the lecture platform. Garrison will, however, give an address in Brooklyn on Feb. 26th. Attendance was small at the Annual Subscription Anniversary for the benefit of the National Anti-Slavery Standard. At the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, Garrison was criticized for deserting the abolitionist cause by Stephen Symonds Foster and others. Wendell Phillips was praised for his continued activity on behalf of the freedmen. Garrison discusses the court decision regarding Francis Jackson's bequest. Garrison gave a present to J. R. Smith, who was an entertainer at Fanny G. Villard's wedding. Garrison gives family news. William Lloyd Garrison Jr.'s wool business is doing better. Anna Whiting is dying. January has been cold and snowy.Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.5, no.189.
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Digital CommonwealthKeywords
- Abolitionists
- Antislavery Movements
- Bigelow, Henry Jacob 1818 1890
- Correspondence
- Foster, Stephen S. (Stephen Symonds) 1809 1881
- Garrison, Helen Eliza 1811 1876
- Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
- Garrison, William Lloyd 1838 1909
- History
- Jackson, Francis 1789 1861
- Massachusetts Anti Slavery Society
- Phillips, Wendell 1811 1884
- Slaver
- Thompson, George 1804 1878
- United States
- Villard, Fanny Garrison 1844 1928
- Whiting, Anna Maria 1814 1867