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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.On verso, the letter is addressed to "William Lloyd Garrison Esqr Boston Mass" and it is postmarked with a red, circular stamp reading, "Pawtucket R.I. Jun 19."Ray Potter writes to William Lloyd Garrison after receiving his last letter and declaring "there is great joy in the city on hearing its contents" [Garrison will come to Pawtucket and speak before the Pawtucket Anti-Slavery Society]. Potter insists that Garrison is still essential to the abolitionist cause and that nothing "can rob you of your fair, hard earned, and well deserved fame." He then mentions he gave an address in Warwick, Rhode Island, "which was rell received" and he plans to speak next in Fall River, Massachusetts, "a very important station and I wonder no more has been done there." He also says that "one of the greatest difficulties" about Garrison's visit to Pawtucket is that he does not "expect the largest house in the village will hold half the people for I have no doubt but what there will be a great multitude who weill flock to hear you."

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