Letter from Harriet Martineau, Ambleside, [England], to William Lloyd Garrison, October 23d 1850
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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Manuscript composed upon stationary bearing a letterhead with a black-and-white etching/engraving of the Knoll, Martineau's estate at Ambleside. In a post-script, Martineau identifies to Garrison the bay windows captured in the image as those to the study in which she works.Manuscript addressed from "The Knoll Ambleside".Harriet Martineau writes William Lloyd Garrison informing him to expect the arrival of a sum of £10 by way of Ellis Gray Loring, and states that this is her contribution in support of Garrison's work with the Liberator. Martineau exults that she is at long last able to contribute financially to the cause. Martineau stresses her sense of "deep obligation" to Garrison for his remembrances of her, and for his keeping her appraised of the movement by way of the Liberator.
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Digital CommonwealthKeywords
- Abolitionists
- Antislavery Movements
- Correspondence
- England
- Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
- History
- Loring, Ellis Gray 1803 1858
- Martineau, Harriet 1802 1876
- New York Tribune (New York, N.Y. : 1841)
- Slaver
- Social Reformers
- United States
- Woman's Journal (Boston, Mass. : 1870)
- Women
- Women Abolitionists