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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.On verso, under the autograph, the letter is addressed to "William Lloyd Garrison Esq 31 Cornhill Boston."Elizur Wright, Jr. writes to William Lloyd Garrison sharing his distress "about the Liberator ever since I was in Boston" evidently due to its lack of funding. He complains that the amount of money "which is expended to support a thousand brainless, soulless editors ... while an honest man is left to starve, it makes me almost a misanthrope." Wright mentions a plan by "friend Thompson" to sell multiple copies of Liberator numbers, saying that while "his friendship will be no light matter" he thinks the plan might be too late. He also offers his own advice, telling Garrison to "go into all the country, [and] beset every man" and to "pour out your whole soul in behalf of the slaves ... [and then] put it to their consciences whether they will let the Liberator go down." He also recommends that Garrison "treat delinquent subscribers more cavalierly" and if they don't pay, to publish their names in the Liberator, asserting "Anti Slavery men must be honest." He sends Garrison $10 for his account and asks him "how the paper stands - What will help it and whether some such effort as I mention cannot be made."

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