Letter from Andrew Paton, Birkenhead, [England], to William Lloyd Garrison, July 16 [1867]

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Andrew Paton, Birkenhead, [England], to William Lloyd Garrison, July 16 [1867]
Description:
George Thompson expresses to William Lloyd Garrison his pleasure at the latter's "gaining health & vigor", and states that Garrison's renewed and rejuvenated health will be a welcome sign following years of labor in service of abolition. Thompson recounts having received a letter from Oliver Johnson regarding that year's Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends, and reports that Lucretia Mott, Robert Purvis, and E. M. Davis were in attendance. Thompson describes a letter printed in the National Anti-Slavery Standard suggesting the nomination of Wendell Phillips and John Mercer Langston for President and Vice-President on the Republican Party ticket in 1868.
Author:
Thompson, George, 1804-1878
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
[July 16, 1867]
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--England--19th century--Correspondence
Social reformers--England--History--19th century
African American abolitionists--History--19th century
African American politicians--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Social reformers--United States
Abolitionists
Social reformers
African American abolitionists
African American politicians
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940)
Thompson, George, 1804-1878
Johnson, Oliver, 1809-1889
Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
Purvis, Robert, 1810-1898
Davis, Edward Morris, 1811-1887
Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884
Langston, John Mercer, 1829-1897
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
Places:
England
Extent:
1 leaf (6 p.) 12.7 x 20.2 cm. + 1 envelope (13.9 x 7.9 cm.)
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/5h740228k
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
Birkenhead, [England]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Manuscript annotated on recto, with "167" in pencil above Thompson's salutation to Garrison, "1867" in pencil beneath letterhead date, and "86B" in pencil along left-bottom margin of page.
Manuscript annotated on verso, with "George Thompson, Birkenhead, July 16 1867" in pencil along center-right margin of page.
Manuscript includes stamped envelope, addressed to "Wm. Lloyd Garrison Esq / Huntly Lodge / Napier Road / Edin." Envelope has two one-penny denomination stamps affixed to recto, along with an annotation reading "Andrew Paton, Glasgow, July 16, 1867" on left margin of page. Envelope verso has postmarked stamped in black ink.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
4714102
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.35, p.86B
Barcode:
39999066763705