Letter from Samuel Edmund Sewall, Boston, [Massachusetts], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1835 Oct[ober] 27

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Title:
Letter from Samuel Edmund Sewall, Boston, [Massachusetts], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1835 Oct[ober] 27
Description:
Sameul Edmund Sewall writes to WIlliam Lloyd Garrison about Garrison staying in Brooklyn, Connecticut, remarking, "you will certainly have less interruption there in preparing matter for the paper." Sewall believes that Garrison "would be perfectly safe in Boston now," but reminds him that "your life was undoubtedly in imminent peril last Wednesday, and your escape under all the circumstances was miraculous." Sewall relates the news that Isaac Knapp was forced to move the printing presses from the Liberator office and "it will be difficult for him to find another room to print the paper in." Still, he "trust[s] there will not be even one week's interruption in the publication of the Liberator." Sewall states that George Thompson "is at Isaac Winslow's in Danvers" and is "in fine spirits then, and nothing daunted." He suggests that Thompson publishes "a statement of the material circumstances in relation to the charge brought against him." He then notes that "the state of things here is lamentable. The most respectable people either open justify or coldly disapprove the riot, while they are loud in the condemnation and abuse of the abolitionists ..." He tells Garrison of the inaction of the city authorities and the view of Boston abolitionists that "some of the gentlemen who were most active in the mob out to be prosecuted." Sewall also offers to assist Isaac Knapp with the Liberator, and in the postscript, he comments that "Mr. May has not yet returned."
Author:
Sewall, Samuel E. (Samuel Edmund), 1799-1888
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
October 27, 1835
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Abolitionists--Violence against--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States
Violence
Antislavery movements--United States
Garrison Mob, Boston, Mass., 1835
Social reformers--United States
Sewall, Samuel E. (Samuel Edmund), 1799-1888
Knapp, Isaac, 1804-1843
Thompson, George, 1804-1878
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 25 cm.
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Place of origin:
Boston, [Massachusetts]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
On verso, the letter is addressed to
Identifier:
5721461
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.5, p.66
Barcode:
39999086048269