Letter from Harriet Beecher Stowe, Cabin, to William Lloyd Garrison, 1853 Nov[ember] 30

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Harriet Beecher Stowe, Cabin, to William Lloyd Garrison, 1853 Nov[ember] 30
Description:
Harriet Beecher Stowe writes to William Lloyd Garrison thanking him for "the frankness and kindness with which" he responded to her last note. Stowe then explains her last note to the American Anti-Slavery Socety, saying she may have misunderstood Garrison and that "it is difficult in letter writing for people to come to a full appreciation of sentiments on an extensive & somewhat complicated subject". She invites Garrison to the "Cabin" and offers to show him "the many memorials of the kindness of English friends shown to the cause of the slave, thro [sic] me." She also says that at this visit she will share her views and then Garrison "will then think differently" of her last letter. Stowe asks Garrison to bring "the manuscript" of her letter, explaining that she has "not strength to copy them" and she will "carefully reconsider it in the light of your suggestions."
Author:
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
November 30, 1853
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Abolitionists--England--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--United States--History--19th century--Correspondence
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists
Antislavery movements--United States
Social reformers--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Places:
England
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 19 x 13 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2v23xb32d
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
Cabin
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Legacy catalog card identifies the place of publication of this manuscript as "Cabin".
Legacy catalog card contains a note stating "On microfilm RBD 488."
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript composed in very faint pencil on white paper stationery with the embossed initials "HBS" appearing upside-down alongside the signature. Above the salutation, "22C" is written in pencil, while in the head- spine corner of the first page there is also a checkmark drawn in pencil. Along the fore edge of the first page, "1853" has been added in pencil next to the date. On the verso, in the tail- fore corner, "MS A 1.2 v.23 p.102" has also been written in pencil.
Identifier:
5055231
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.23, p.102
Barcode:
39999085440103