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Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Providence, [R.I.], to Helen Eliza Garrison, May 5, 1839
1839-05-05
Garrison, Helen Eliza, 1811-1876, Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Holograph, signed.
- Title:
- Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Providence, [R.I.], to Helen Eliza Garrison, May 5, 1839
- Creator:
- Garrison, Helen Eliza, 1811-1876, Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
- Date Created:
- 1839-05-05
- Description:
Holograph, signed.
William Lloyd Garrison reports on a lecture tour to Taunton, Fall River, Providence, and Coventry. He spoke in Mr. Emery's meetinghouse in Taunton even though Mr. Emery is not a "Garrisonite." At Fall River, Garrison addressed a good audience in Mr. Fowler's meetinghouse; Fowler hates Garrison like a rattlesnake. In Providence, he lectured to a crowded audience in the Masonic Hall.
On page two of this manuscript, William Lloyd Garrison continues this letter on Monday afternoon, [May 6]. Garrison gives news of friends and relatives. Garrison has read of the attempt to blow up the the anti-slavery depository in Hartford. George William Benson was in the building at the time of the explosion. No one was injured from the explosion. James G. Birney has attacked the non-resistant abolitionists in the last issue of the Emancipator.
Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.2, no.149.
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- Partner:
- Digital Commonwealth
- Contributing Institution:
- Boston Public Library
- Subjects:
- Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Garrison, Helen Eliza 1811-1876
Benson, George William 1808-1879
Emery, Samuel Hopkins 1815-1901
Fowler, Rev
Birney, James Gillespie 1792-1857
Garrison, William Lloyd 1805-1879 - Type:
- text
- Format:
- CorrespondenceManuscripts
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