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[Letter to] Dear Aunt [manuscript]   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Newell, Charlotte Lloyd, d. 1857, recipient
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Title
[Letter to] Dear Aunt [manuscript]
Publisher
Brooklyn, [Conn.]
Description
Holograph, signed with initials
On pages three through four of this manuscript, there is a letter by William Lloyd Garrison to Aunt Charlotte Lloyd Newell. The journey from Boston to Brooklyn, Conn., took four hours. In William L. Garrison's courting days, before railroad, the same journey took fifteen hours or more. He has not been to Brooklyn in 14 years. Rain is needed here. William L. Garrison writes: "Tell George [T. Garrison] he must rusticate a week at Hopedale, [Massachusetts] as I am sure Mr. and Mrs. Fish will be much pleased to have him with them, as he is a favorite of theirs." William L. Garrison is to lecture in a Unitarian church and also in the village of Killingby
On pages two through three of this manuscript, there is a separate letter by Helen Eliza Garrison to Aunt Charlotte Newell. Helen E. Garrison tells about their pleasant visit with Philip Scarborough. Helen will pass the old homestead today. Brother George W. Benson is in Philadelphia on business
Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison

Subjects: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879; Garrison, Helen Eliza, 1811-1876; Newell, Charlotte Lloyd, d. 1857; Benson, George William, 1808-1879; Garrison, George Thompson, 1836-1904; Scarborough, Philip, d. 1865; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists
Language english-handwritten
Publication date 1854
publication_date QS:P577,+1854-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Current location
IA Collections: bplscas; bostonpubliclibrary; americana
Accession number
lettertodearaunt00garr
Authority file  OCLC: 1048321455
Source
Internet Archive identifier: lettertodearaunt00garr
https://archive.org/download/lettertodearaunt00garr/lettertodearaunt00garr.pdf

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