Letter from Gerrit Smith, Peterboro, [New York], to William Lloyd Garrison, [18]62 Ap[ri]l 16

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Gerrit Smith, Peterboro, [New York], to William Lloyd Garrison, [18]62 Ap[ri]l 16
Description:
In this letter to William Lloyd Garrison, Gerrit Smith writes he is pleased that Garrison had written him to explain "so fully & so satisfactorily in regard to what is reported you said from 20 to 25 years ago of the duty or policy of a reformer." Smith reports that Garrison writes that he "never held the doctrine & should never have been charged with holding it", saying he will immediately send his letter to [Theodore Dwight] Weld as well as sending Garrison's response to Henry Brewster Stanton and Stephen S. Foster.
Author:
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
[April 16, 1862]
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
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Social reformers--United States
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
Stanton, Henry B. (Henry Brewster), 1805-1887
Weld, Theodore Dwight, 1803-1895
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Foster, Stephen S. (Stephen Symonds), 1809-1881
Extent:
1 leaf (2 p.) ; 21 x 26 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2v23x648g
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
Peterboro, [New York]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript composed in black ink on white, lined paper with an embossed logo of an oval containing the words, "Holyoke & Co." in the head- spine corner of the first and third pages. On the first page, under the embossed logo and above the first line of the letter, the number "45" is written in pencil.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
4865682
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.31, p.114B
Barcode:
39999085439329