[Letter to] Sir
Contributors: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879 recipient
Published: 1872
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; History; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists
Other titles: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) William Lloyd Garrison Correspondence (1823-1879) 
Description: Hoyt requests that Garrison supply him with information pertaining to the percentage of prisoners in Massachusetts who are African-American. Hoyt explains that he desires this statistical information due to his belief that a claim stating 1/8th of all Massachusetts' prisoners to be African-American to be a false statement, and one which he wishes to dispel.
Notes: Holograph, signed.

The letterhead on this manuscript reads: United States Internal Revenue, Collector's Office, 1st District, Chicago, Illinois.