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Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Boston, [Mass.], to Elizabeth Pease Nichol, May 3, 1848

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Holograph, signed.William Lloyd Garrison tells about the death of his baby who was named after Elizabeth Pease. He dwells on the child's uncommon beauty and the grief of her mother, Helen Eliza Garrison. At the funeral, a select number of friends, including Wendell Phillips and Theodore Parker, spoke. Henry C. Wright is urging Garrison to take the water cure with Dr. Ruggles. Garrison praises Dr. MacLeod and thanks Elizabeth Pease Nichol for a copy of his medical work. Henry C. Wright is to work in Ohio this summer. Mrs. Maria W. Chapman is leaving in June to go to Europe for two or three years.Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.3, no.234.
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
  4. Correspondence
  5. Garrison, Elizabeth Pease 1846 1848
  6. Garrison, Helen Eliza 1811 1876
  7. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  8. History
  9. Mac Leod, William 1818 Or 1819 1875
  10. Nichol, Elizabeth Pease 1807 1897
  11. Parker, Theodore 1810 1860
  12. Phillips, Wendell 1811 1884
  13. Ruggles, David 1810 1849
  14. Slaver
  15. United States
  16. Wright, Henry Clarke 1797 1870

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