Letter from Oliver Johnson, New York, [N.Y.], to William Lloyd Garrison, 25 April, 1857

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Title:
Letter from Oliver Johnson, New York, [N.Y.], to William Lloyd Garrison, 25 April, 1857
Description:
Oliver Johnson writes to William Lloyd Garrison concerning the scheduling of speakers for upcoming anti-slavery meetings and lectures. Johnson states that Dr. Cheever will be unable to speak at their upcoming engagement, and that he has not heard yet from Mr. Furness, although Mr. McKim assures him that Mr. Furness will be in attendence. Johnson states that Mr. McKim has additionally requested that they invite Miss Watkins to speak. Johnson states that Frothingham, Purvis, and Rev. Mr. Sloane all all engaged for their meeting. Johhson closes by requesting that Garrison prepare a selection of hymns for the meeting, and that he publish in the next issue of "The Liberator" the "little paragraph appended in the Standard to the call for our yearly meeting."
Author:
Johnson, Oliver, 1809-1889
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
April 25, 1857
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--Congresses--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Congresses and conventions
Johnson, Oliver, 1809-1889
Cheever, George B. (George Barrell), 1807-1890
Furness, William H. (William Henry), 1827-1867
M'Kim, J. Miller (James Miller), 1810-1874
Purvis, Robert, 1810-1898
Sloane, J. R. W. (James Renwick Wilson), 1823-1886
American Anti-Slavery Society
Frothingham, Octavius Brooks, 1822-1895
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
National anti-slavery standard
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 12.1 x 18.7 cm.
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Place of origin:
New York, [N.Y.]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Identifier:
4493954
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.27, p.11
Barcode:
39999089663197