Letter from Gerrit Smith, Peterboro, [New York], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1866 August 5

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Gerrit Smith, Peterboro, [New York], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1866 August 5
Description:
Gerrit Smith writes to William Lloyd Garrison telling him that he read in the Anti-Slavery Standard about Garrison's arm injury and that he is "recovering from a similar accident." Smith says he sympathizes with Garrison "for the sake of your country. Never, more than now, did she need your pen & voice - for never has she been in greater pain than she now is." He then discusses the New Orleans Race Riot of July 1866, saying "I think the New Orleans murder would have opened the eyes of Congress to its folly". Before ending the letter, Smith tells Garrison, "I hope you see light ahead. I do not."
Author:
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
August 5, 1866
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
African Americans--Violence against--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
New Orleans Race Riot, New Orleans, La., 1866
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
African Americans
Violence
Antislavery movements--United States
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Social reformers--United States
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Extent:
1 leaf (3 p.) ; 21 x 26 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2v23x8096
Terms of Use:
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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 of an eagle above a shield in the head- spine corner of each page. Along the spine edge of the first page, above the first line of the letter, the number "60" is written in pencil. The second page of the letter is written vertically, facing the fore edge of the page.
Identifier:
5004911
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.34, p.145A
Barcode:
39999085439675