Letter from Stephen James Wilson Tabor, Rufus Leighton, and George E.H. Clery, Washington, [District of Columbia], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1864 Oct[ober] 27
Letter from Stephen James Wilson Tabor, Rufus Leighton, and George E.H. Clery, Washington, [District of Columbia], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1864 Oct[ober] 27
Description:
Stephen J.W. Tabor, the fourth auditor of the Treasury Department, along with George E.H. Clery and Rufus Leighton, write to William Lloyd Garrison asking him to deliver a lecture in Washingon during the winter. They write that they have been appointed by the National Freedmen's Relief Association to arrange a course of lectures to "raise money to replenish the exhausted treasury of our society" and "to offer the public an opportunity to listen to the discussion of the great themes of the day by the ablest minds." They also mention that similar requests have been made to Ralph Waldo Emerson, Wendell Phillips, Horace Greeley, Frederick Douglass, and others.
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript composed in black ink on white paper. Under the salutation, the number "175" is written in pencil and in the tail- spine corner of the first page, "V33,P99A" is also written in pencil.