Letter from Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Boston, [Mass.], to William Lloyd Garrison, April 19 [18]79

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Boston, [Mass.], to William Lloyd Garrison, April 19 [18]79
Description:
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin writes William Lloyd Garrison her desire to visit him since reading his appeal for aid on behalf of the "Southern Refugees". Ruffin reports that she only knows of one of the signers of the "St. Louis Appeal", but declares that his "intemperate habits" causes her to distrust the "whole committee", and informs Garrison that his estimation of the character of the man in question is "entirely wrong". Ruffin states her fears that an occasion of "dishonesty of some of the agents" such as took place in the "Freedmen's Aid Society".
Author:
Ruffin, Josephine St. Pierre, 1842-1924
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
[April 19, 1879]
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
African American women abolitionists--History--19th century--Correspondence
African American women social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Freedmen--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Social reformers--United States
African American women abolitionists
African American women social reformers
Freed persons--United States
Freedmen's Aid Society
Ruffin, Josephine St. Pierre, 1842-1924
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Extent:
1 leaf (2 p.) ; 12.8 x 20.4 cm.
Permalink:
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Place of origin:
Boston, [Mass.]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Manuscript annotated on recto, with "71" in pencil beneath Ruffin's salutation to Garrison.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
4714161
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.40, p.101A
Barcode:
39999066764042