Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Boston, [Mass.], to Francis Jackson, Sept. 28, 1849
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Holograph, signed.The revenues of the Liberator in the last quarter have sufficed only to cover the expenses of the paper, leaving $268 due to William Lloyd Garrison for his salary for three months. Garrison owes this amount for household and medical expenses. He is anxious to maintain his credit.Beneath William Lloyd Garrison's signature on page two, the members of Financial Committee of the Liberator are listed as being Francis Jackson, Ellis Gray Loring, Edmund Quincy, Samuel Philbrick, and Wendell Phillips.The delivery address is: Francis Jackson, Chairman of the Financial Committee of the Liberator.Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.3, no.279.
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- Abolitionists
- Antislavery Movements
- Correspondence
- Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
- History
- Jackson, Francis 1789 1861
- Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
- Loring, Ellis Gray 1803 1858
- Philbrick, Samuel 1789 1859
- Phillips, Wendell 1811 1884
- Quincy, Edmund 1808 1877
- Slaver
- United States