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Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Boston, [Mass.], to George William Benson, Jan. 4, 1837

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Holograph, signed.William Lloyd Garrison is relieved to hear the news of Henry Egbert Benson's improved health. Garrison comments: "One of my cherished maxims is, that it can never be a calamity for a good man to go to heaven, either sooner or later." He gives family news. Henry B. Stanton has lectured thirty-six times in three weeks. Henry B. Stanton, Amos Dresser, and Theodore D. Weld will attend the annual meeting in Boston. On New Year's Day, Henry Chapman gave Garrison a generous gift of a hundred dollars.Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.2, no.65.
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  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Benson, George William 1808 1879
  4. Benson, Henry Egbert 1814 1837
  5. Chapman, Henry 1771 1846
  6. Correspondence
  7. Dresser, Amos 1812 1904
  8. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  9. History
  10. Slaver
  11. Stanton, Henry B. (Henry Brewster) 1805 1887
  12. United States
  13. Weld, Theodore Dwight 1803 1895

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