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Holograph, signedTitle devised by catalogerManuscript composed upon stationary bearing the typeset letterhead of the "Bloomington Nursery & Garden"Manuscript annotated on recto, with "52" in pencil above Phoenix's salutation to GarrisonFranklin Kelsey Phoenix writes William Lloyd Garrison stating that his father was "an ardent abolitionist" from 1834 to his death in 1840, and expresses his hopes to have inherited his father's "Reform Proclivities". Phoenix opines that there is no greater foe facing them than "Whisky - threatening Church & State". Phoenix expresses his astonishment at the ease with which "Rum & License triumphed in Mass". Phoenix solicits Garrison's advice on "[w]hat to do for Temperance & [h]ow to do it"
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. Alcohol
  3. Antislavery Movements
  4. Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805 1879
  5. Phoenix, Franklin Kelsey, 1825 1911
  6. Slaver
  7. Social Reformers
  8. Temperance

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