Letter from Harriet Winslow Sewall, Melrose, [Massachusetts], to William Lloyd Garrison, [1864 May]

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Harriet Winslow Sewall, Melrose, [Massachusetts], to William Lloyd Garrison, [1864 May]
Description:
Harriet Winslow Sewall writes to William Lloyd Garrison inviting the Garrison family to stay for a month in their home in Melrose, "not as boarders but as guests." Sewall says that "as citizens of a Republic to whose redemption you have devoted your life, we all owe you a debt that cannot be so easily paid." She suggests that the "change of air" could be beneficial to Mrs. [Eliza Helen] Garrison and that ever her "Aunt Robie who came here one time from a sick bed said she had never improved any where so fast."
Author:
Sewall, Harriet Winslow, 1819-1889
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
[May 1864]
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Social reformers--United States
Sewall, Harriet Winslow, 1819-1889
Garrison, Helen Eliza, 1811-1876
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 18 x 23 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2v23x307m
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
Melrose, [Massachusetts]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Legacy catalog card identifies the date of publication as "May 1864".
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript composed in blue ink on white paper with a watermark that reads, "Joynson 1862". Above the salutation, towards the spine edge, the number "80" is written in pencil, while closer to the fore edge, the words "May 1864" are written in pencil. Additionally, along the spine edge of the fourth page, the words, "Mrs. Sewall, May, 1864" is written vertically in pencil, facing the fore edge of the page.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
4749034
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.33, p.48B
Barcode:
39999085438610