Letter from North Shields Reform League, to William Lloyd Garrison

Item Information

Title:
Letter from North Shields Reform League, to William Lloyd Garrison
Description:
The North Shields Reform League addresses William Lloyd Garrison with their congratulations on behalf of "a large body of workingmen" of Newcastle for the success of his labors and the abolition of slavery in the United States.
Author:
North Shields Reform League
Inscriber:
Charlton, John
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
1867
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
Social reformers--England--History--19th century
Suffrage--Great Britain--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Social reformers--United States
Social reformers
Suffrage
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876
North Shields Reform League
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Places:
United Kingdom
England
Extent:
1 leaf (2 p.) ; 20.6 x 32.7 cm. + 1 clipping (8.7 x 14.6 cm.)
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/m900q8332
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Manuscript annotated on recto of attached note/newspaper clipping, with "Garrison MSS." stamped in blue ink. Attached clipping includes a newspaper dispatch concerning the Rev. Charles W. Denison, and his claim for compensation for "services rendered" the the United States government while in England during the Civil War, a period in which Denison was officially declared "absent without leave and dishonorably dismissed" from the Union Army.
Manuscript annotated on verso, with "Garrison MSS." stamped in blue ink, and "MS A.1.2 V.41 P.55" in pencil.
Manuscript signed by Robert Robson, John Charlton, and Robert Sutherland, officers of the North Shields Reform League.
Identifier:
4713993
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.41, p.55
Barcode:
39999066760503