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Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, [Boston, Mass.], to Eliza Frances Jackson Meriam Eddy, Saturday morning, Nov. 3, [1855]

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Holograph, signed.William Lloyd Garrison asks Mrs. Eddy to convey his thanks to her father, Francis Jackson, for the grapes he sent. Garrison makes a pun on grapes, referring to General Taylor's use of grape[shot] in Mexico. Garrison expresses his grateful appreciation of Francis Jackson's generous and heroic character that he has known through their twenty years of association.Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.4, no.122.
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  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Correspondence
  4. Eddy, Eliza Frances Jackson Meriam 1816 1881
  5. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  6. History
  7. Jackson, Francis 1789 1861
  8. Slaver
  9. United States

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