Letter from Sarah Moore Grimkè, Fort Lee, to Elizabeth Pease Nichol, 1839 May 14
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Sarah Moore Grimkè writes to Elizabeth Pease Nichol about a letter she wrote her a month ago requesting information "relative to prejudice as it is manifested in the Society of Friends." She mentions a tour of J.J. Gurney and his pamphlet entitled, "Free & Friendly remarks on the famous speech of Henry Clay in support of southern slavery." She writes to introduce Elizabeth and her fathers to two abolitionists who have "gone on a mission to England to obtain friends for an Institution in the State of Ohio where colored youth of both sexes are received & enjoy all the literary & social advantages which the white students enjoy-I need not say anything respecting Oberlin Seminary as all I could say is exuberated in a document which they take with them." She writes her awareness of Great Britain philanthropists and their own responsibilities in their own country but believes they will rejoice "to aid in the development of that wealth of intellect."
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript contains a purple postmarked stamp that says "Garrison Mss." This manuscript also contains an engraving with the words underneath "Engraved by P. Reason, "A Colored Young Man of the City of New York, 1835."