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[Letter to] My dear Wife---and my precious little Babe [manuscript]

by: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879; Garrison, Helen Eliza, 1811-1876, recipient

Publication date: 1836

Topics: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, Garrison, Helen Eliza, 1811-1876, Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842, Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, Follen, Charles, 1796-1840, Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot, 1787-1860, Goodell, William, 1792-1878, Loring, Ellis Gray, 1803-1858, Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876, May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871, Parker, Mary S, Sewall, Samuel E. (Samuel Edmund), 1799-1888, Antislavery movements, Abolitionists

Publisher: Boston, [Mass.]

Collection: bplscas; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

Holograph, signed

William Lloyd Garrison describes his journey via Providence to Boston. A reception was given for Garrison at Mary S. Parker's house. Plans were made at Samuel E. Sewall's office for the hearing before the Legislative Committee the next day. The evening was spent at Mrs. Maria W. Chapman's house. Garrison tells about the hearing at the State House. In the gallery were the Westons, Chapmans, Harriet Martineau, Mrs. Eliza Lee Cabot Follen, Dr. Channing. The defence was represented by Samuel J. May, Ellis Gray Loring, William Goodell, William Lloyd Garrison, and Charles Follen. Samuel J. May and Charles Follen were rudely interrupted. Another hearing will be held next week

Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison