Letter from Wendell Phillips, to William Lloyd Garrison, Aug[ust] 17 - [18]48

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Wendell Phillips, to William Lloyd Garrison, Aug[ust] 17 - [18]48
Description:
Wendell Phillips thanks William Lloyd Garrison for Helen Garrison's letter on the benefits of hydrotherapy, and states his long-standing opposition to picnics. Phillips asserts his unease and suspcision that there is "some malignant influence at work" against the American Anti-Slavery Society. Phillips informs Garrison that he received his paper along with Gerrit Smith's "document", and notes that he read this with amusement. Phillips proposes offering the work to "E. L." as a "subject for a leader". Phillips states that he is informed of the "great & good impression" made by Parker Pillsbury in Philadelphia.
Author:
Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
[August 17, 1848]
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
Antislavery movements--Newspapers--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Social reformers--United States
Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884
Garrison, Helen Eliza, 1811-1876
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
Pillsbury, Parker, 1809-1898
Benson, George William, 1808-1879
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 20.1 x 24.9 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/5h740534b
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
[Place of publication not identified]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Manuscript annotated on recto, with "29" in pencil along top-left of page, and "Garrison MSS." stamped in blue ink beneath letterhead date.
Manuscript addressed on verso to "William Lloyd Garrison, Esq. Care of Geo: Benson Esq - Bensonville, Northampton, Mass." Manuscript postmarked August 19, and stamped "Paid".
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
4715258
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.18, p.29
Barcode:
39999066764414