Letter from Maria Martineau, The Knoll, to Philip Pearsall Carpenter, William Lloyd Garrison, and Wendell Phillips, [18]60 June 14th

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Maria Martineau, The Knoll, to Philip Pearsall Carpenter, William Lloyd Garrison, and Wendell Phillips, [18]60 June 14th
Description:
Maria Martineau writes to Philip P. Carpenter acknowledging that he has returned to Warrington, [England] and sharing news of her aunt, Harriet Martineau. Martineau says she has "but little to tell of her," noting that "last winter & spring have been a season of very great suffering to her" including a period of "violent attacks of influenza." She sends Carpenter a copy of Nightingales's "Notes", calling it "literally beyond all praise ... to us nurses it is like a new life." Martineau states that Nightingale is also ill and "cannot live very much longer." She says that Harriet Martineau would "have liked to write to you but we are obliged to economise her strength to the utmost." In the second letter from Philip Pearsall Carpenter to William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips, Carpenter tells them he has "carried back to N. York the English Naturalist on Southern Tramp ... I hope you have got them." He states that William Robson "is overdone" but now that he has returned home, Robson "can have a holiday." He thanks Garrison and Phillips for their gifts and reports that "Susan thinks rightly that the profile of W.L.G. is admirable."
Author:
Martineau, Maria, -1864
Addressee:
Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Addressee:
Carpenter, Philip P. (Philip Pearsall), 1819-1877
Date:
[June 14, 1860]
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Abolitionists--England--19th century--Correspondence
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--England--History--19th century--Correspondence
Abolitionists
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Social reformers--United States
Women abolitionists
Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876
Martineau, Maria, -1864
Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Carpenter, Philip P. (Philip Pearsall), 1819-1877
Places:
England
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 21 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2z110834q
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
The Knoll
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
On verso, after the letter from Maria Martineau to Philip Pearsall Carpenter, Carpenter writes a note to William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips, beginning, "Dear Friends."
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
5862306
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.30, p.70
Barcode:
39999085840252