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Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Boston, [Mass.], to Joseph Ricketson, Dec. 4, 1847

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Typed transcript. The original manuscript is located in the Charles G. Slack Collection, Marietta College Library, Ohio.William Lloyd Garrison accepts Joseph Ricketson's invitation to lecture at the New Bedford Lyceum. Henry Clarke Wright will attend the meetings today and tomorrow in New Bedford.Includes a letter by Francis Jackson Garrison to Mr. Ford, April 10, 1901, regarding the provenance of William Lloyd Garrison's letter. Francis Jackson Garrison writes: "I send copies of three of my father's letters of which the originals are in the hands of Mr. Goodspeed, the bookseller at 5 Park St. who has kindly allowed me to make copies of them. They came to him from a nephew of Joseph Ricketson, to whom they were addressed, and I thought you would like to have them for your files."Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.3, no.220.
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Correspondence
  4. Ford, Mr
  5. Garrison, Francis Jackson 1848 1916
  6. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  7. History
  8. Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
  9. Ricketson, Joseph 1815 1876
  10. Slaver
  11. United States
  12. Wright, Henry Clarke 1797 1870

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