Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Youngstown, (Ohio), to Helen Eliza Garrison, Aug. 16, 1847

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Place of origin:
Youngstown, (Ohio)
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
William Lloyd Garrison compares Pittsburgh to a British manufacturing town. They travelled to New Brighton with Dr. Martin R. Delaney and other colored companions. They were welcomed by Milo A. Townsend, a true reformer. Though exposed to numerous anti-slavery lecturers, New Brighton remains generally incorrigible. No place could be obtained for the meeting, except the upper room of a store. The poetess Sara Jane Clarke Lippincott (best known by the pseudonym Grace Greenwood) was at the meeting; Garrison called on her parents---Mrs. Clarke knew the Benson family in Brooklyn, Conn. The weather was exceedingly warm. Garrison travelled with Frederick Douglass to Youngstown in a canal boat. They stayed at the Mansion House, a "rum tavern" whose landlord is friendly to the abolitionist cause. Frederick Douglass was exhausted and voiceless and fears he has a swelling of the tonsils. Today, Garrison leaves for New Lyme.
Notes (citation):
Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.3, no.209.
Identifier:
3134723
Call #:
Ms.A.1.1 v.4, p.61
Barcode:
39999066750769
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