Letter from Robert Purvis, Washington, D.C., to William Lloyd Garrison, Nov[ember] 18th 1878
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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Manuscript composed upon stationary bearing the typeset letterhead of the "Office of the Commissioners of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company."Manuscript annotated on recto, with "101" in pencil above Purvis' salutation to Garrison.Manuscript addressed from "1118 13th St."Robert Purvis writes William Lloyd Garrison expressing his thanks for Garrison's gift of a photograph of George Thompson, and relates that gazing upon it kindles his memory to the "early days of our Anti-Slavery warfare". Purvis relates to Garrison his evening spent with Lucretia Mott in which they read aloud letters from Thompson and Garrison. Purvis states with sadness how their circle "narrows", and states that soon, none of the "Old Guard" of their cause will remain.
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- Abolitionists
- African American Abolitionists
- African Americans
- Antislavery Movements
- Correspondence
- England
- Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
- History
- Mott, Lucretia 1793 1880
- Purvis, Robert 1810 1898
- Slaver
- Social Reformers
- Thompson, George 1804 1878
- United States
- Women
- Women Abolitionists