Letter from Joseph Fell, Buckingham, P[ennsylvani]a, to William Lloyd Garrison, [18]62 [December] 17

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Joseph Fell, Buckingham, P[ennsylvani]a, to William Lloyd Garrison, [18]62 [December] 17
Description:
Joseph Fell writes to William Lloyd Garrison, joining "the thousands who have taken the liberty to address ... [Garrison] without having a previous personal acquaintance." Fell identifies himself as a reader of anti-slavery newspapers, including the "Standard", and tells Garrison that is assisting "a young man ... [who has] been appointed to deliver the annual address at the State Normal School" and chose "Wm. L. Garrison as his theme." Fell then asks Garrison a number of questions about his professional life and shares that he "knew Benj[amin] Lundy and his father's family in N.J.". He offers to pay Garrison for any information he can send about his life and background and then tells him about one of his sons "who was in the recent disastrous battle at Fredericksburg and of whom we have yet received no tidings." After the signature, on the last page, Fell provides his address.
Author:
Fell, Joseph
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
[December 17, 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
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Fell, Joseph
Lundy, Benjamin, 1789-1839
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 21 x 26 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2v23x6718
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
Buckingham, P[ennsylvani]a.
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 image of a bundle of wheat in the head- spine corner of the first page.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
4866494
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.31, p.165B
Barcode:
39999085439378