Letter from John Greenlead Whittier, Amesbury, [Massachusetts], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1864 [January] 17

Item Information

Title:
Letter from John Greenlead Whittier, Amesbury, [Massachusetts], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1864 [January] 17
Description:
John Greenleaf Whittier writes to William Lloyd Garrison after reading in the Liberator a letter "from my old & highly esteemed friend, A[bijah] W[yman] Thayer, Esq. in relation to a letter received by me from Henry Clay." Whittier confirms that he had written Clay "to use his influence to effect thy liberation from prison in Baltimore" but that he cannot find the letter. Clay told Whittier that he had written to a friend in Baltimore "to inquire into the matter" and discovered that "he had been anticipated by a gentleman from New York" [Arthur Tappan]. Whittier remarks that while Clay did own slaves, "had he lived to our day, [he] would, I am sure, have been found on the side of Union, & therefore of Liberty." In the postscript, Whittier tells Garrison he will send him the letter if he can find it.
Author:
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
January 17, 1864
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
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
Extent:
1 leaf (3 p.) ; 21 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2v23xp54h
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
Amesbury, [Massachusetts]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript composed in black ink on white paper. Above the salutation, the number "6" is written in pencil and on the adjacent page, along the spine edge, "John G. Whittier, Amesbury, Mass., January 17, 1864" is also written in pencil, vertically. Additionally, in the head- spine corner of the same page, "A.1.2 v.33 p.4" is written in pencil. Throughout the letter various annotations have been made in pencil.
Identifier:
5091647
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.33, p.4B
Barcode:
39999085425559