Letter from William Cooper Nell, Rochester, [N.Y.], to William Lloyd Garrison, Sept[ember] 15. 1851

Item Information

Title:
Letter from William Cooper Nell, Rochester, [N.Y.], to William Lloyd Garrison, Sept[ember] 15. 1851
Description:
William C. Nell writes William Lloyd Garrison amending an account he had included in a letter to Wendell Phillips, concerning spiritual communications from Nathaniel Peabody Rogers to Isaac Post. Nell details his attendance at a spiritualist "reading and coversation", and passes news of other spiritualist phenomena, including news of mutual friends.
Author:
Nell, William C. (William Cooper), 1816-1874
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
September 15, 1851
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
African American abolitionists--History--19th century--Correspondence
African American social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Spiritualism--United States--History--19th century
Spiritualists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Religious aspects--Spiritualism--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Social reformers--United States
African American abolitionists
African American social reformers
Spiritualism--United States
Spiritualists
Antislavery movements--United States
Spiritualism
Nell, William C. (William Cooper), 1816-1874
Rogers, Nathaniel Peabody, 1794-1846
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 20 x 25.1 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/m900qx17m
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
Rochester, [N.Y.]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Manuscript annotated on recto, with "119" appearing in pencil above Nell's salutation to Garrison.
Identifier:
5070946
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.20, p.118
Barcode:
39999066759570