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[Copy of letter to] Henry D. Wertz [manuscript]   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Wertz, Henry D., b. 1838, recipient
Garrison, Francis Jackson, 1848-1916
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Title
[Copy of letter to] Henry D. Wertz [manuscript]
Publisher
Boston, [Mass.]
Description
Letter transcribed by Francis Jackson Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison declines to purchase a Sharp's rifle found in the engine house at Harper's Ferry after John Brown's surrender. Garrison writes: "I gave no sanction to John Brown's method of emancipating the slaves, though conceding to him the purest and noblest motives."
On page three of this manuscript, there is a separate note by Francis Jackson Garrison explaining how Henry D. Wertz acquired the Sharp's rifle
Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison

Subjects: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879; Wertz, Henry D., b. 1838; Garrison, Francis Jackson, 1848-1916; Brown, John, 1800-1859; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists
Language English
Publication date 1874
publication_date QS:P577,+1874-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Current location
IA Collections: bplscas; bostonpubliclibrary; americana
Accession number
copyoflettertohe00garr
Authority file  OCLC: 1042458319
Source
Internet Archive identifier: copyoflettertohe00garr
https://archive.org/download/copyoflettertohe00garr/39999066754811.pdf

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