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Letter from Lidian Jackson Emerson, Concord, to William Lloyd Garrison, May 1, 1876

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Holograph, signed.Lidian Jackson Emerson sends William Lloyd Garrison a photograph of Mr. Emerson taken ten or fifteen years ago. Lidian J. Emerson writes to Garrison with great admiration: "Permit me to say, that your letter I shall keep as a possession valuable and increases in value as the years and ages go by. I shall leave it to my children as the Autograph of a man without whose heroic labours and sacrifices we could not now rejoice in 'A Nation saved, a Race delivered!'"
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Correspondence
  4. Emerson, Lidian Jackson 1802 1892
  5. Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803 1882
  6. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  7. History
  8. Slaver
  9. United States

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