Letter from Gerrit Smith, Peterboro, [New York], to William Lloyd Garrison, [18]63 June 12

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Gerrit Smith, Peterboro, [New York], to William Lloyd Garrison, [18]63 June 12
Description:
In this letter to William Lloyd Garrison, Gerrit Smith writes he has received Garrison's letter informing him of the postponement of his visit to Peterboro. He sends his sympathy to Garrison "& your dear wife in regard to your [son] George Thompson". Smith then states his agreement with Garrison and that "our Government in this matter of colored prisoners is very strange" but he adds he believes "that great good may come of it." Smith also expresses his confidence that "All is so working as to leave not a shred of slavery."
Author:
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
[June 12, 1863]
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
African American soldiers--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Social reformers--United States
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Garrison, George T. (George Thompson), 1836-1904
Extent:
1 leaf (3 p.) ; 21 x 26 cm. + 1 envelope (8 x 14 cm.)
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2v23x710r
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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 in the head- spine corner containing the words, "Carson's Congress". Under the salutation and above the first line of the letter, the number "69" is written in pencil. Additionally on the first page, under the second line of the second paragraph, "[son]" has been added in pencil just before the name "George Thompson".
The folder also contains an envelope addressed to "Rev. Samuel May Leicester Mass. U.S.A. and is postmarked with a stamp that reads "Dublin 6 Ju 27 1863". In the head- fore corner of the envelope, "Recd July 10/63." has been written in ink. Along the spine side of the envelope, a different shade of black ink was used to write and enclose the sentence, "Valuable Letters - recd by R.D. Webb in reference to the Affair of M.D. Conway and the Rebel J.M. Mason of Virginia." On the fore side of the envelope, the same handwriting continues to add, "Letters of John B[illegible] Geo. Thompson H. Martineau F.W. Chesson".
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
4882049
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.32, p.35A
Barcode:
39999085439469