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[Letter to] My dear Mr. Garrison [manuscript]   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Purvis, Robert, 1810-1898
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, recipient
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Title
[Letter to] My dear Mr. Garrison [manuscript]
Description
Holograph, signed
Title devised by cataloger
Manuscript composed upon stationary bearing the typeset letterhead of the "Office of the Commissioners of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company."
Manuscript annotated on recto, with "101" in pencil above Purvis' salutation to Garrison
Manuscript addressed from "1118 13th St."
Robert Purvis writes William Lloyd Garrison expressing his thanks for Garrison's gift of a photograph of George Thompson, and relates that gazing upon it kindles his memory to the "early days of our Anti-Slavery warfare". Purvis relates to Garrison his evening spent with Lucretia Mott in which they read aloud letters from Thompson and Garrison. Purvis states with sadness how their circle "narrows", and states that soon, none of the "Old Guard" of their cause will remain

Subjects: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879; Purvis, Robert, 1810-1898; Thompson, George, 1804-1878; Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists; Social reformers; African American abolitionists; Abolitionists; Women abolitionists
Language English
Publication date 1878
publication_date QS:P577,+1878-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Current location
IA Collections: bplscas; bostonpubliclibrary; americana
Accession number
lettertomydearmr00purv
Authority file  OCLC: 1048341702
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Internet Archive identifier: lettertomydearmr00purv
https://archive.org/download/lettertomydearmr00purv/39999032923706.pdf

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