Letter from Elizabeth Pease Nichol, Darlington, [England], to William Lloyd Garrison, May 2. 1841
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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Manuscript annotated on recto, with "166" appearing in pencil on the upper-right margin of page, and "Garrison MSS." stamped in blue ink on the upper-left margin of page.Manuscript addressed, on verso, to "Wm Lloyd Garrison 25 Cornhill Boston Massachusetts". Manuscript verso has postage stamp reading, in blue ink, "Darlington MY 1 1841".Elizabeth Pease Nichol informs William Lloyd Garrison that although weeks have passed since her last correspondence, Garrison has remained in her thoughts "daily, almost hourly". Pease Nichol asserts that the hardships endured by the abolitionists are ensuring their respective individual formation as a "good soldier of Christ". Pease Nichol discusses Anna Braithwaite's charge of "duplicity" against Garrison, and asserts that her accusations are "fallacious". Pease Nichol closes her missive by touching down on matters of theological doctrine as pertains to the antislavery movement and its beliefs.
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- Abolitionists
- Antislavery Movements
- Braithwaite, Anna 1788 1859
- Christianity
- Correspondence
- England
- Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
- Great Britain
- History
- Nichol, Elizabeth Pease 1807 1897
- Religious Aspects
- Slaver
- Social Reformers
- United States
- Women
- Women Abolitionists
- Women Social Reformers
- Women's Rights