Letter to] My dear Mr. Garrison [manuscript pdf

Letter to] My dear Mr. Garrison [manuscript

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Holograph, signed’, ‘Title devised by cataloger’, ‘Manuscript header on first page contains a note informing Garrison that the planned convention will not be an Illinois Convention but a “Western Women’s Convention”, with eight western states being represented’, ‘Mary Livermore writes William Lloyd Garrison having learned that Garrison declines to attend their planned convention. Livermore states that the “affectionate and husbandly reason” given by Garrison to excuse his absence is fully appreciated. Livermore nonetheless states that their “need of [Garrison] is so urgent” that she makes one final appeal to his attendance at the convention, asserting that they have “few eminent people in the West, and none who carry such weight intellectually or morally as the New England leaders”. Livermore states that she is hosting a convention practically weekly, and shares her confidence with Garrison as to the physical and mental toll that such a schedule imposes. Livermore asserts that the “limitations, subjection, deprivations, ignorance, sufferings and sorrows of women” leave a heavy mark upon her soul, and hopes that the Chicago Convention will “radiate an influence throughout the West that will vitalize” the women’s rights movement.

Livermore requests that the New England Woman’s Suffrage Association send to them two delegates, and declares that her preference be that they be Garrison and Lucy Stone. Livermore asserts that Massachusetts is the “brain and conscience” of the United States. Livermore writes that their struggle is as much a moral as a political one

• Creator/s: Livermore, Mary A. (Mary Ashton), 1820-1905, Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, recipient
• Date: 1869
• Book Topics/Themes: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, Livermore, Mary A. (Mary Ashton), 1820-1905, 1818-1893, Whipple, Charles K. (Charles King), 1808-1900, New England Woman’s Suffrage Association (Boston, Mass.), Antislavery movements, Abolitionists, Women abolitionists, Women’s rights, Women, Women

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