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Letter from Female Literary Association, Phila[delphia, Pennsylvania], to William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp

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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Writing on behalf of the Female Literary Association, Sarah Mapps Douglass writes to William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp "to purchase a few copies of [Garrison's pamphlet] 'Thoughts on Colonization'". She offers them "our heartfelt thanks for what you have done" and assures them, "dear to our people are the names of Garrison and Knapp." Douglass also reports the "Association is increasing in number and usefulness." In the postscript, she says she could have purchsed the books through "the agent but the Association wished to express their sympathy," before adding that she will obtain the books from Joseph Cassey.
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. African American Women Abolitionists
  3. African Americans
  4. Antislavery Movements
  5. Correspondence
  6. Douglass, S. M. (Sarah Mapps) 1806 1882
  7. Female Literary Association
  8. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  9. History
  10. Knapp, Isaac 1804 1843
  11. Slaver
  12. Social Reformers
  13. United States
  14. Women
  15. Women Abolitionists

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