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[Letter to] My dear brother-in-law [manuscript]

by: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879; Benson, George William, 1808-1879, recipient

Publication date: 1835

Topics: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, Benson, George William, 1808-1879, Burleigh, Charles C. (Charles Calistus), 1810-1878, Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892, Riots, Antislavery movements, Abolitionists

Publisher: Brooklyn, [Conn.]

Collection: bplscas; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

Holograph, signed

George William Benson's letter told of the tumult at the Utica convention. William Lloyd Garrison arrived in Brooklyn well and cheerful. Garrison assumed that George William Benson heard about the riot in Boston from Charles C. Burleigh and John G. Whittier. Garrison felt no fear and rested calmly in his prison cell

Only a fragment remains of pages three and four of this letter

Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison