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Letter from Mrs. Mary Stearns, Medford, [Massachusetts], to William Lloyd Garrison and Helen Eliza Garrison, 1863 March 4th

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Stearns, Mary, Mrs

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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript composed in black ink on white paper with an embossed circular logo in the head- spine corner of the first page depicting a crown surrounded by a belt containing the words, "Superfine Ivory". Along the head edge, next to the embossed design, "From Mrs. George L. Stearns." has been written and underlined in black ink and below the salutation, the number "23" has been added in pencil.Mary Elizabeth Stearns, writes to William Lloyd Garrison and Helen Eliza Garrison informing them she has told her "man to take a barrel of Russets, to your door tomorrow". She asks the Garrison's to tell their son, Wendell Phillips Garrison, that his note will be passed to another son, Frank, "when he returns from Concord." Stearns writes she hopes to meet them at the philarhominc if she feels well enough and claims her "headaches must be the work of a pro slavery Secesh spirit." She then mentions that her husband, Mr. [George L.] Stearns "has gone to Canada to get Negroes for the 54th Reg[imen]t" and in his letters his writes that "Secession sympathy is so strong" at Toronto and that Frederick Douglass "brought him his youngest son as a recruit" at Rochester.
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