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[Letter to] Dear Miss Farnsworth [manuscript]

by: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879; Farnsworth, Elizabeth, b. 1793, recipient

Publication date: 1879

Topics: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, Farnsworth, Elizabeth, b. 1793, Farnsworth, Amos, 1788-1861, Antislavery movements, Abolitionists

Publisher: Roxbury, [Mass.]

Collection: bplscas; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

Copy of letter; not William Lloyd Garrison's handwriting. Whereabouts of original manuscript unknown

William Lloyd Garrison thanks Miss Elizabeth Farnsworth for a contribution "in aid of the suffering colored emigrants who are seeking a refuge in Kansas from cruel injustice and unrelenting oppression on southern soil." Elizabeth Farnsworth is eighty-six years old. Garrison mentions the late Dr. Amos Farnsworth, the brother of Elizabeth Farnsworth