[Letter to] William L. Garrison
Contributors: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, recipient
Published: 1849
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Abolitionists; History; Antislavery movements; Social reformers; Christianity
Other titles: William Lloyd Garrison Correspondence (1823-1879) (Boston Public Library)
Description: Elkanah Nickerson writes William Lloyd Garrison concerning "the things of faith", asserting that there must exist a "line of demarcation" between believers in the "word, or words, of Jesus Christ" and non-believers. Nickerson declares that Garrison, Henry Clarke Wright, and Parker Pillsbury appear to him as "destitute of faith", and professes his desire that Garrison should publish, either in the Liberator or in the form of a private letter, their personal beliefs on the matter. In a post-script, Nickerson attacks Garrison's theology as a "medley of confusion", and collocates "Unitarianism, Universalism, Deism, and Atheism" as forms of "unbelief".
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Title devised by cataloger.

Manuscript annotated on recto, with "From Elkanah Nickerson" in black ink on top-left of page, "20" in pencil beneath salutation, and "Garrison MSS." stamped in blue ink on top-right of page.

Manuscript addressed on verso to "William L. Loyd Garrison Boston Mass." Manuscript postage marked "Paid", and postage stamp dated "May 30".