[Letter to] Dear Friend
Series: William Lloyd Garrison Correspondence (1823-1879)
Published: 1857
Place of publication: Boston, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; History; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists
Notes: Holograph, signed.

This letter is an appeal for charitable assistance on behalf of Michael Sheehy, an educated and once affluent Irishman, and his family, who are living in destitution in a basement room. Sheehy is an accountant, a teetotaler, and an advocate of anti-slavery. He has lectured on Daniel O'Connell. He has credentials from Father Mathew, Quincy A. Shaw, and others. He needs clothing, money, and employment.

See Call No. Ms.A.1.1 v.5, p.44, for a similar letter by William Lloyd Garrison, dated June 20, 1857.

Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.4, no.168.