Letter from Elizabeth Pease Nichol to William Lloyd Garrison, [1840]

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Title:
Letter from Elizabeth Pease Nichol to William Lloyd Garrison, [1840]
Description:
Elizabeth Pease Nichol writes to William Lloyd Garrison sending him "the enclosed letter from M. V. Ball, in the hope that" Garrison can explain why "our Non-Resistant friends" make their beliefs "part & parcel of their abolition." She argues than no man has the "right of exercising such an authority over the consciences of others" and discusses her views of the connection between non-resistance and abolitionism. Nichol then asks Garrison about "the precise nature & grounds of the unhappy divisions which have arisen amongst American Abolitionists". In the postscript, she comments on an article in the Massachusetts Abolitionist of December 1, 1839, noting that "the Non-Resistants are charged with 'resisting the progress of Anti-Slaveyr opinion with all their might.'"
Author:
Nichol, Elizabeth Pease, 1807-1897
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
[1840]
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--United States--History--19th century
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Nonviolence--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--Scotland--History--19th century--Correspondence
Abolitionists
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Social reformers--United States
Nonviolence
Women abolitionists
Nichol, Elizabeth Pease, 1807-1897
Ball, Martha V., 1811-1890
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Massachusetts abolitionist
Places:
Scotland
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 19 cm.
Permalink:
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Place of origin:
[Place of publication not identified]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Legacy catalog card identifies the date of publication of this manuscript as "[1840]"
On verso, the letter is addressed to "Wm Lloyd Garrison".
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
5138054
Call #:
MS A.9.2 v.13, p.66
Barcode:
39999085505848