Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Boston, [Mass.], to Mary Benson, Dec. 23, 1838

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Place of origin:
Boston, [Mass.]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
The annual meeting of the state Anti-Slavery Society will be held on January 23. There is evidence of a plot, with the clerical abolitionists as the leaders and Charles T. Torrey the most active plotter. There is a plan to elect a different board of managers and to start a new anti-slavery paper as the organ of the Society. William Lloyd Garrison asks Mary Benson to come to the meeting and bring Phoebe (Jackson?) with her. The proceeds of the anti-slavery fair came to $1100, the largest on record. Henry C. Wright has published a tract exposing national organizations as being hostile to the Christian gospel. Garrison discusses the case of Elleanor Eldridge; not ten, of two hundred copies, of her book sold. [Elleanor Eldridge was a property owner who was defrauded of her land. The Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge was printed in Providence in 1838, and Elleanor's Second Book was printed in 1839.]
Notes (citation):
Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.2, no.134.
Identifier:
3134566
Call #:
Ms.A.1.1 v.3, p.25
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