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[Extract of letter to Samuel May Jr.] [manuscript]

by: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879; May, Samuel, 1810-1899, recipient

Publication date: 1867

Topics: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, May, Samuel, 1810-1899, Garrison, Francis Jackson, 1848-1916, Villard, Fanny Garrison, 1844-1928, Villard, Henry, 1835-1900, Freedmen, Antislavery movements, Abolitionists

Publisher: Roxbury, [Mass.]

Collection: bplscas; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

Extract of letter handwritten and transcribed by unknown person. Whereabouts of the original manuscript unknown

William Lloyd Garrison gives four reasons why he is considering going abroad this summer: the benefits to his health; the pleasure of meeting his daughter Fanny Garrison Villard and her husband (Henry Villard) and his son Frank (Francis Jackson Garrison) at the Paris Exhibition; a World's Anti-Slavery Congress is to be held in Paris and William Lloyd Garrison has been asked to appear as a delegate for the American Freedmen's Commission; and finally, to see his old anti-slavery friends in England once more