Letter from Henry Wigham, Edinburgh, [Scotland], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1854 [February] 3

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Title:
Letter from Henry Wigham, Edinburgh, [Scotland], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1854 [February] 3
Description:
Henry Wigham writes to William Lloyd Garrison commenting on "the course which Frederick Douglass has pursued". Wigham calls it "mournful to see a man of great intellect so far the slave of his passions as to sacrifice the interests of his race ... by attempting to bring reproach upon the tried friends of the Anti-Slavery Cause". He adds that "the highminded Frederick Douglass has indeed fallen low when he begs from Harriet Beecher Stowe £300 to support his paper." Wigham also discusses the death and creation of two British antislavery societies and a visit by Parker Pillsbury to his sister, Eliza Wigham, in Dublin, Ireland. He then describes the successful lectures of John B. Gough in Ediburgh and remarks on the success of the latest American Anti-Slavery Society Anniversary in Philadelphia, that "it is most cheering to learn that public opinion in America is changing in favour of your cause."
Author:
Wigham, Henry
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
[February 3, 1854]
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Abolitionists--Scotland--19th century--Correspondence
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--Great Britain--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Temperance--Great Britain--History--19th century
Abolitionists
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Great Britain
Antislavery movements--United States
Social reformers--United States
Temperance
Wigham, Henry
Pillsbury, Parker, 1809-1898
Gough, John B. (John Bartholomew), 1817-1886
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Places:
Scotland
United Kingdom
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 21 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2z10z3529
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
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Place of origin:
Edinburgh, [Scotland]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
5119628
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.24, p.11
Barcode:
39999085430013