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Letter from Wendell Phillips, to William Lloyd Garrison, Aug[ust] 17 - [18]48

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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Manuscript annotated on recto, with "29" in pencil along top-left of page, and "Garrison MSS." stamped in blue ink beneath letterhead date.Manuscript addressed on verso to "William Lloyd Garrison, Esq. Care of Geo: Benson Esq - Bensonville, Northampton, Mass." Manuscript postmarked August 19, and stamped "Paid".Wendell Phillips thanks William Lloyd Garrison for Helen Garrison's letter on the benefits of hydrotherapy, and states his long-standing opposition to picnics. Phillips asserts his unease and suspcision that there is "some malignant influence at work" against the American Anti-Slavery Society. Phillips informs Garrison that he received his paper along with Gerrit Smith's "document", and notes that he read this with amusement. Phillips proposes offering the work to "E. L." as a "subject for a leader". Phillips states that he is informed of the "great & good impression" made by Parker Pillsbury in Philadelphia.
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Benson, George William 1808 1879
  4. Correspondence
  5. Garrison, Helen Eliza 1811 1876
  6. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  7. History
  8. Newspapers
  9. Phillips, Wendell 1811 1884
  10. Pillsbury, Parker 1809 1898
  11. Slaver
  12. Smith, Gerrit 1797 1874
  13. Social Reformers
  14. United States

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