Letter from Gerrit Smith, Peterboro, [New York], to William Lloyd Garrison, [18]62 Ap[ri]l 16
Description:
In this letter to William Lloyd Garrison, Gerrit Smith writes he is pleased that Garrison had written him to explain "so fully & so satisfactorily in regard to what is reported you said from 20 to 25 years ago of the duty or policy of a reformer." Smith reports that Garrison writes that he "never held the doctrine & should never have been charged with holding it", saying he will immediately send his letter to [Theodore Dwight] Weld as well as sending Garrison's response to Henry Brewster Stanton and Stephen S. Foster.
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript composed in black ink on white, lined paper with an embossed logo of an oval containing the words, "Holyoke & Co." in the head- spine corner of the first and third pages. On the first page, under the embossed logo and above the first line of the letter, the number "45" is written in pencil.