Letter from Louisa Thompson, Nosworthy, Leeds, [England], to William Lloyd Garrison, Oct[ober] 9th 1878
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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Manuscript annotated on recto, with "74" in pencil above Nosworthy's salutation to Garrison.Manuscript includes photocopy of legacy catalog card.Manuscript annotated on page no. 3, with "MS. A.1.2 V.40 P.40(a)" in pencil along bottom-center margin of page.E. Louisa Thompson Nosworthy informs William Lloyd Garrison of the death of her father, George Thompson. Nosworthy recounts to Garrison her father's condition and final days, stating that he was not bed-ridden until the very end, and asserting that he lapsed into a coma immediately prior to his passing. Nosworthy writes that, at the moment of death, a "look of seraphic beauty" came over her father's face, which she interprets as a proof of his apprehension of the "glories of heaven".
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Digital CommonwealthKeywords
- Abolitionists
- Antislavery Movements
- Bereavement
- Christianity
- Correspondence
- England
- Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
- History
- Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
- Nosworthy, Louisa Thompson B. Ca. 1832
- Religious Aspects
- Slaver
- Social Reformers
- Thompson, George 1804 1878
- United States