Letter from Samuel Edmund Sewall, [New York, New York], to William Lloyd Garrison, [1859 March 9]

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Samuel Edmund Sewall, [New York, New York], to William Lloyd Garrison, [1859 March 9]
Description:
Samuel Edmund Sewall writes to William Lloyd Garrison asking him to include the attached circular (printed on page 3 and 4), advertising a subscription to help publish and distribute the book "The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It" by Hinton Rowan Helper, in the Liberator. Sewall states that "the extensive circulation of the his book on the place proposed cannot fail to do good."
Author:
Sewall, Samuel E. (Samuel Edmund), 1799-1888
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
[March 9, 1859]
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Publishing--United States--History--19th century
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Publishers and publishing
Social reformers--United States
Sewall, Samuel E. (Samuel Edmund), 1799-1888
Helper, Hinton Rowan, 1829-1909
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
Extent:
1 leaf (1 p.) ; 28 x 21 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2v23x257m
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
[New York, New York]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Legacy catalog card identifies the date of publication as "1859 March 9."
Legacy catalog card identifies the place of publication as "New York."
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript composed in black ink on white paper with a small checkmark drawn in pencil in the head- spine corner. Below the salutation, the number "29" is also recorded in pencil. Page 4 is the first page of the circular advertising the subscription, which then continues on page 3.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
4748320
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.29, p.30
Barcode:
39999085504510