Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Roxbury, [Mass.], to Wendell Phillips Garrison, Sept. 2, 1874

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Place of origin:
Roxbury, [Mass.]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed "Your loving Father."
William Lloyd Garrison tells about Fanny Garrison Villard's trip to Providence where she saw Mr. and Mrs. Henry Anthony, Mary Townsend, and Sarah Tillinghast. Fanny also visited Newport, R.I. William L. Garrison cannot accept Wendell Phillips Garrison's invitation. William L. Garrison's fortieth wedding anniversary is on Friday. He does not believe in having a big party to celebrate the occasion. Garrison speaks of "the dreadful atrocities which are daily perpetrated upon the colored people of the South." Garrison writes: "The diabolical spirit of slavery and rebellion is still dominant in that section; and where is Grant, except smoking his cigars and receiving camp meeting ovations."
Identifier:
3135347
Call #:
Ms.A.1.1 v.8, p.61B
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