[Letter to] My dear Johnson
Contributors: Johnson, Oliver, 1809-1889, recipient
Series: William Lloyd Garrison Correspondence (1823-1879)
Published: 1863
Place of publication: Boston, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; History; American Anti-Slavery Society; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists
Notes: Holograph, signed.

William Lloyd Garrison heard from Theodore Tilton that Oliver Johnson was near Longwood, Pa., on a visit. Garrison thinks that someone other than himself should write the history of the anti-slavery cause. He mentions preparations for "the Decade of celebration at Philadelphia" [of the American Anti-Slavery Society]. Garrison's family thinks that the photograph of him, that was sent by Johnson, "has a somewhat hard, severe and staring look." Henry Ward Beecher has "done good service to freedom and loyalty" on his tour in England.

Includes an envelope with the delivery address: Oliver Johnson, Anti-Slavery Office, New York.