Letter from Lucy M. Ball, Boston, [Mass.], to William Lloyd Garrison, Jan[uary] 30th 1836
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Lucy M. Ball of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society writes William Lloyd Garrison explaining that upon their most recent quarterly meeting, a unanimous vote was passed to forward the sum of $50 to Garrison as a testimony of their esteem and to assist with the losses incurred at the previous annual meeting by the "Gentlemanly" members of their community. Ball states that they expect to host a "special meeting" of the society shortly in order to decide on a method of providing additional financial support for the Liberator to ensure a more "extensive circulation" of the paper.||In the second missive addressed to Garrison, Isaac Knapp informs Garrison that he has appropriated $20 received from Ball for his own use, and inquires of Garrison if he believes he was correct in doing so. Knapp informs Garrison that their mutual friend David Wilson has "failed in business for about $4,000", and that he gave the now-penniless Wilson $15.00 to help him pay for his passage to Canada. Knapp closes in advising Garrison to remain in Brooklyn if able, and inquires when he shall receive Garrison's "history of Thompson".
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Page no. 2 of manuscript includes a letter dated "Feb. 16, 1836", addressed from Boston. While there is no signature, the correspondence is addressed to William Lloyd Garrison, and a pencilled note on the manuscript indicates that the author of the second missive on this manuscript is Isaac Knapp.