Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, New York, to Helen Eliza Garrison, May 16 [i.e. 15], 1840

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Place of origin:
New York
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed with initials.
William Lloyd Garrison reports on an anti-slavery meeting in New York. Abby Kelley (Foster) was appointed to a business committee. The minority of the group seceded to form the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. Arthur Tappan declined re-election and Lindley Coates was chosen in his stead. Only James S. Gibbons was re-elected to the Executive Committee. Resolutions were adopted unanimously. A mob attacked Roswell Goss's Graham House. Garrison writes: "As Rogers and myself have been stopping with our colored friend Van Ranssalaer [sic], we have seen nothing of the mobocrats. It has not amounted to any thing like a popular tumult." Garrison will sail on the ship Columbus bound for Liverpool with Cyrus Pitt Grosvenor, William Adams, Charles Lenox Remond, and Nathaniel P. Rogers.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (citation):
Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.2, no.184.
Identifier:
3134599
Call #:
Ms.A.1.1 v.3, p.40
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