Letter from Harriet Beecher Stowe, [Andover, Massachusetts], to William Lloyd Garrison, [1854 February 18]

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Harriet Beecher Stowe, [Andover, Massachusetts], to William Lloyd Garrison, [1854 February 18]
Description:
Harriet Beecher Stowe writes to William Lloyd Garrison rejoicing "in the result of your lecture in N. York" and urging "that all who hate slavery be united if not, in form, at least in fact. Unity is difference." She tells Garrison that "the lectures have been embarrassed by a pressure of other nerves which the urgency of the Nebraska question has brought on us" and she states her agreement with "CKW in the Liberator that the present crisis must be siezed [sic] to indoctrinate the community with thorough anti-slavery views." Stowe also attemps to clarify the meaning of comments made by her brother, Henry Ward Beecher, that were published in the Liberator. Before ending the letter, Stowe tells Garrison, "if any thing can be done advantageously now that needs funds let me know" as she is "too feeble to do much otherwise."
Author:
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
[February 18, 1854]
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
Antislavery movements--Lectures and lecturing--United States--History--19th century
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--United States--History--19th century--Correspondence
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Lectures and lecturing
Social reformers--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 21 x 14 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2v23xb692
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Place of origin:
[Andover, Massachusetts]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Legacy catalog card identifies the place of publication of this manuscript as "Andover".
Legacy catalog card identifies the date of publication of this manuscript as "18 Feb. 1854".
Legacy catalog card contains a note stating "On microfilm RBD 488."
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript composed in black ink on white paper stationery with the embossed initials "HBS" appearing along the head edge of the first page. Under the salutation, the number "15" is written in pencil, while in the head- fore corner of the first page, "Andover, Mass. 1854? Feb. 18?" is written in pencil, alongside "Harriet Beecher Stowe", also in pencil. In the tail- fore corner of the first page, "Ms.A 1.2v.24p.17" has also been written in pencil. A different handwriting from Stowe has written and underlined "Mrs. Stowe to W.L. Garrison" in black ink along the head edge of the first page. On the third page, nine lines up from the bottom of the page, "Lib. Feb. 17, 1854" has been added in pencil, in reference to a comment made by Stowe. When the letter ends after the fourth page, it continues vertically across the fourth page and then back on to the first page again.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
5055292
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.24, p.17
Barcode:
39999085440152