Letter from Abraham Lidden Cox, New York, [New York], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1833 Decem[ber] 12

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Title:
Letter from Abraham Lidden Cox, New York, [New York], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1833 Decem[ber] 12
Description:
Abraham Lidden Cox writes to William Lloyd Garrison "in the direct performance of an official duty" and invites him to stay at his family home when he comes to New York. Cox insists that his home would be "the perfect convenience you might make of it" and "above all, no one can give you a fuller welcome than we." He also discusses the "failure of the great meeting for Colonizing in Phila[delphia]" and calls it "a favourable omen." Cox then describes "the business of his letter," which is to give to Garrison "two resolutions of the Ex[ecutive] Com[mittee] of the Am[erican] Anti-Slavery Society." The first resolution invites George Thompson and Charles Stuart to come to the United States "to labour in the cause of Emancipation" with the Society, while the second resolution states that the Secretary for Foreign Correspondence must submit all correspondence to the Executive Committee before it is mailed. Cox adds that the Society wanted "to say to you, unofficially, that the Society must not be in any way implicated in respect to salary, and that you would manage that in your correspondence better than we by any resolution to that effect."
Author:
Cox, Abm. L. (Abraham Lidden), 1800-1864
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
December 12, 1833
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
African Americans--Colonization--Africa
Antislavery movements--United States
Social reformers--United States
American Anti-Slavery Society
American Anti-Slavery Society. Executive Committee
Cox, Abm. L. (Abraham Lidden), 1800-1864
Stuart, Charles, 1783?-1865
Thompson, George, 1804-1878
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 26 cm.
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Place of origin:
New York, [New York]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
On verso, the letter is addressed to "William Lloyd Garrison Esq Editor of the Liberator Boston." It is postmarked with a red, circular stamp reading "New York Dec 12" and a black seal is present below the address information.
Identifier:
5707261
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.3, p.93
Barcode:
39999086045786