Letter from Sarah Pugh, Germantown, Philad[elphia, Pennsylvania], to Elizabeth Pease Nichol, [18]65 Decem[ber] 28

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Title:
Letter from Sarah Pugh, Germantown, Philad[elphia, Pennsylvania], to Elizabeth Pease Nichol, [18]65 Decem[ber] 28
Description:
Sarah Pugh writes to Elizabeth Pease Nichol after reading "Garrison's Jubilant Song of Thanksgiving in the Liberator of the 22nd" and celebrating Nichol as an "earnest & faithful co-worker with our little band". Pugh asserts that while "abolitionists have not continued of 'one mind' as to the demands of the hour", they are still "eminently a 'band of brothers'". She shares news of Lucretia Mott and her son's life-threatening accident and mentions how receiving a letter from Nichol brought her "back to the time we first met." Pugh tells her that she passed Nichol's message to their friends and copies a note from Lizzie Gay to Nichol, adding details about Gay's children. She also discusses Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Wendell Phillips, and the marriage of Wendell Phillips Garrison to Lucy M'Kim and Fanny Garrison to "Mr. [Henry] Villard, "a German gentleman highly esteemed". In an additional note written in the margin of the first page, Pugh asks Nichol to tell Mary Estlin that she "hope[s] to write her & Harriet Lupton very soon" and to "dear Eliza Wigham, her mother & Mary Edmundson."
Author:
Pugh, Sarah, 1800-1884
Addressee:
Nichol, Elizabeth Pease, 1807-1897
Date:
[December 28, 1865]
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Abolitionists--Great Britain--19th century--Correspondence
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--Great Britain--History--19th century--Correspondence
Women abolitionists--United States--History--19th century--Correspondence
Abolitionists
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists
Women abolitionists--United States
Nichol, Elizabeth Pease, 1807-1897
Pugh, Sarah, 1800-1884
Gay, Elizabeth Neall, 1819-1907
Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884
Places:
United Kingdom
Extent:
1 v. (6 p.) ; 21 cm. + 1 envelope (8 x 14 cm.)
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2z10z5751
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
Germantown, Philad[elphia, Pennsylvania]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
The folder contains an envelope featuring the image of Liberty shooting herself with a cannon labeled "Secession." The image is captioned "Virginia begins the War."
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
5121086
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.34, p.113A
Barcode:
39999085430930