Letter from Harriet Martineau, Ambleside, [England], to William Lloyd Garrison, August 10 / [18]64

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Title:
Letter from Harriet Martineau, Ambleside, [England], to William Lloyd Garrison, August 10 / [18]64
Description:
Harriet Martineau sends her sympathies to William Lloyd Garrison following the illness of his wife Helen and the "peculiar trial" in which Garrison has been "misunderstood & unkindly treated by old comrades & disciples who shd have distruted their own judgement rather than doubt [Garrison]". Martineau notes that she and Garrison are in "entire agreement" concerning the "question of Mr Lincoln's character, deserts, & claim to reelection". Martineau asserts, in respects to "Wendell Phillips & his clique", that the best course of action is to make "no notice whatever, in any public way, of the split among the old abolitionists", arguing that the "overwhelming interest" in "present national affairs" renders the point somewhat moot, in any circumstance. Martineau asserts that they ought to avow on "all reasonable occasions" their desire for the reelection of Abraham Lincoln, arguing that whatever faults one may find in Lincoln from an abolitionist perspective are overwhelmed by the "sake of the national welfare". Martineau adds that Wendell Phillips's "crazy denunciations" of England have conspired to deprive him of all public influence there.
Author:
Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
[August 10, 1864]
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
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--England--History--19th century--Correspondence
Social reformers--England--History--19th century
Presidents--United States--Elections--1864
Antislavery movements--United States
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Social reformers--United States
Women abolitionists
Social reformers
Presidents--United States--Election--1864
Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876
Garrison, Helen Eliza, 1811-1876
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Places:
England
Extent:
1 leaf (8 p.) ; 10.2 x 15.8 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/m900pn76z
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No known copyright restrictions.
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Place of origin:
Ambleside, [England]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
4664530
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.33, p.77A
Barcode:
39999063807661