Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, New Haven, [Conn.], to Isaac Knapp, April 11, 1833

Item Information

Place of origin:
New Haven, [Conn.]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
William Lloyd Garrison addressed an audience of colored friends in Providence; they voluntarily made a collection for Garrison's mission. Garrison stayed with the Bensons in Brooklyn; he spoke in Samuel Joseph May's pulpit. He wants Oliver Johnson to state in the Liberator that Miss Prudence Crandall has opened her school. Garrison addressed a colored audience in Hartford, Conn. Nathaniel Jocelyn started a portrait of William Lloyd Garrison in New Haven. Robert B. Hall has been attentive.
On page three of this manuscript, William Lloyd Garrison continues writing this letter on April 17, 1835, in Philadelphia. Garrison gave an address to an audience of colored people in Philadelphia. This audience was less interested than the colored people in Boston. Edmund Brewster painted William Lloyd Garrison's portrait. Garrison will sail for Liverpool on May 1 if funds are raised. A sheriff from Canterbury, Conn., tried to serve writs against Garrison at the instigation of Andrew T. Judson.
Notes (citation):
Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.1, no.94.
Identifier:
2816533
Call #:
Ms.A.1.1 v.1, p.27A
Barcode:
39999066777598
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