Letter from Sarah Moore Grimke, [Boston, Mass.], to Francis Jackson Garrison, May 23 / [18]72

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Sarah Moore Grimke, [Boston, Mass.], to Francis Jackson Garrison, May 23 / [18]72
Description:
Sarah Grimke writes Francis Jackson Garrison concerning the decision taken by Riverside Press to decline to publish her submitted manuscript. Grimke asserts that she is "scarcely disappointed" by the decision owing to her acute awareness of the truth in their assertion that their refusal of the manuscript was based on the indifference of the general public to the subject matter, which she describes as "the history of a quadroon who married a planter". Grimke requests that Garrison retrieve the manuscript and safeguard it for her until she may visit him.
Addressee:
Garrison, Francis Jackson, 1848-1916
Author:
Grimké, Sarah, 1792-1873
Date:
[May 23, 1872]
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
Women abolitionists--United States--History--19th century--Correspondence
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Publishing--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--United States
Social reformers--United States
Antislavery movements--United States
Publishers and publishing
Garrison, Francis Jackson, 1848-1916
Grimké, Sarah, 1792-1873
Extent:
1 leaf (3 p.) ; 24.6 x 19.5 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/m900qc314
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
[Boston, Mass.]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Manuscript composed on the verso of a letter addressed to Sarah Grimke from H.O. Mifflin & Co. declining to publish her submitted manuscript on the grounds that the public is "worse than indifferent to the subject treated in it", and requesting that she inform Francis Jackson Garrison on the manner in which she would like the manuscript of her work returned to her. This manuscript is composed upon stationary bearing the typeset letterhead of "The Riverside Press".
Manuscript annotated on recto, with "(Sarah M. Grimke)" in pencil beneath Grimke's signature.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
4716798
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.37, p.33A
Barcode:
39999032923441