[Letter to] My Dear Friend
Contributors: Bourne, Theodore, d. 1910, recipient
Series: William Lloyd Garrison Correspondence (1823-1879)
Published: 1858
Place of publication: Boston, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Correspondence; History; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists
Notes: Clipping (information artifact).

William Lloyd Garrison writes to Theodore Bourne in praise of George Bourne and his dedication to the anti-slavery cause. Garrison says about George Bourne: "Never has slavery had a more indomitable foe or freedom a truer friend."

This letter was printed in the newspaper article "Who Lighted the Fires of Freedom?" by Mr. Theodore Bourne, n.d., in an unidentified periodical; the whereabouts of the original letter is unknown. The article is about the life of George Bourne, especially focusing on his work as an author and abolitionist crusader. William L. Garrison is mentioned in the article in a very complimentary manner.

See Call No. Ms.A.1.2 v.41, p.48A for another newspaper clipping in which this letter by William Lloyd Garrison to Theodore Bourne, Nov. 18, 1858, is reprinted in its entirety.

Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.4, no.254.