Letter from John A. Kennedy, New York, [N.Y.], to William Lloyd Garrison, April 25, 1867

Item Information

Title:
Letter from John A. Kennedy, New York, [N.Y.], to William Lloyd Garrison, April 25, 1867
Description:
John Alexander Kennedy writes William Lloyd Garrison to express his "debt of gratitude" for Garrison's decades of services "rendered to the cause of humanity", and to offer his apologies to Garrison for his tardiness in acknowledging this indebtedness. Kennedy states that it is difficult for him to separate Garrison from his "early friend Benjamin Lundy", exclaiming that he rarely recalls Lundy's memory without invoking that of Garrison as well. Kennedy lauds Garrison and Lundy on their early recognition of the role that slave-holders themselves had to play in emancipation, and for their efforts to convert them to abolitionism, noting that though it ended in the "slaveholder's Rebellion", their labor was fulfilled.
Author:
Kennedy, John A., 1803-1873
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
April 25, 1867
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Kennedy, John A., 1803-1873
Lundy, Benjamin, 1789-1839
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Extent:
1 leaf (3 p.) ; 20 x 25.2 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/5h740c097
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
New York, [N.Y.]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Manuscript is composed on stationary bearing the typeset letterhead of the "Office of the Superintendent of Metropolitan Police, 300 Mulberry Street".
Identifier:
4664564
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.35, p.18B
Barcode:
39999066766104