Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Freedom's Cottage, Roxbury, [Mass.], to George William Benson, August 11, 1834

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Title:
Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Freedom's Cottage, Roxbury, [Mass.], to George William Benson, August 11, 1834
Addressee:
Benson, George William, 1808-1879
Author:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
August 11, 1834
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--United States
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Benson, George William, 1808-1879
Breckinridge, John, 1797-1841
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Breckinridge, Robert J. (Robert Jefferson), 1800-1871
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 9 7/8 x 8 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/cv43q1100
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
Freedom's Cottage, Roxbury, [Mass.]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
William Lloyd Garrison poetically describes the woods and birds around his cottage. His marriage is on September 4. Garrison writes: "You will have seen by the Liberator, that a grand attack by all the combined forces of colonization and slavery has lately been made upon Boston, in relation to the Maryland scheme of expatriation. They have met with a Waterloo defeat, and yet they fought pugnis et calcibus---with tooth and nails, and even horns." John Breckenridge and Robert J. Breckenridge complained of the treatment they received in Providence because meetinghouses were closed to them.
Notes (citation):
Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.1, no.169.
Identifier:
3134441
Call #:
Ms.A.1.1 v.1, p.46
Barcode:
39999066777812
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