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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript composed in black ink on white paper. Above the salutation the number "137" is written in pencil and along the tail edge of the first page, "V31, P164A" is also written in pencil. On verso, along the head edge of the page, "Nov. 12, 1862" is written in pencil.In this letter to William Lloyd Garrison, George Thompson discusses the recent meetings he has held "upon the Emancipation question in America." Thompson reports that William Andrew Jackson has attended each meeting with him as well as speaking to "upwards of three thousand children" outside of the meetings. He then shares his upcoming lecturing schedule and his "anxiety for the appearance of the Presidents [Lincoln] message", warning that "the sorrow of the friends of the slave here [would be] most poignant if it should show any infirmity of purpose in reference to Emancipation." Thompson also praises the English "unemployed and suffering population in the manufacturing districts for their patience" due to the "stoppage of the supply of cotton" caused by the American Civil War. Thompson also details a meeting of the London Confederate States Aid Association, calling it "a miserable affair." Before ending the letter, he thanks Garrison for reproducing one of his speeches in the Liberator and grants him permission to "use my communications as you deem expedient."

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