Letter from Gerrit Smith, Peterboro, [New York], to William Lloyd Garrison, [18]62 Sept[ember] 20

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Gerrit Smith, Peterboro, [New York], to William Lloyd Garrison, [18]62 Sept[ember] 20
Description:
Gerrit Smith writes to William Lloyd Garrison saying he has read with "satisfaction your 'Drafting - the hour of Trial" (an article in the Liberator) and calls it "a beautiful specimen". Smith discusses Garrison's comparison of "Non-Resistants" and Quakers when faced with a military draft and tells Garrison he "look[s] with interest for your continuation next week."
Author:
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
[April 20, 1862]
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
Nonviolence--United States--History--19th century
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Nonviolence--Religious aspects--Christianity
Nonviolence
Social reformers--United States
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
Extent:
1 leaf (1 p.) ; 21 x 26 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2v23x658q
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
Peterboro, [New York]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript composed in black ink on white paper with an embossed logo in the head- spine corner of the first and third pages, showing an oval containing the words, "Holyoke & Co.". Above the salutation, the number "111" is written in pencil and there are three vertical lines, drawn in ink, over the last paragraph of the letter.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
4865707
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.31, p.149A
Barcode:
39999085439345