[Letter to] Dear Mrs. Child
Contributors: Child, Mrs. (Lydia Maria), 1802-1880, recipient
Series: Lydia Maria Francis Child Correspondence
Published: 1874
Place of publication: Roxbury
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Number of pages: 10
Subjects: Correspondence; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Handwritten and transcribed by unknown person. Whereabouts of original manuscript unknown.

Above the salutation, the letter is marked: Copy.

Garrison thanks Mrs. Child for a letter giving the details of David Lee Child's last illness and death, and for two photographs, one of the deceased and one of Mrs. Child. He sympathizes with the bereaved and said he would have come to Mr. Child's funeral if he had known about it in time. He said he worked for Mr. Child in 1827 as a compositor for the Massachusetts Journal, of which Mr. Child was the editor. Praises Mr. Child's understanding of the evils of slavery, and refers to a speech he made at the first annual meeting of the New England Anti-Slavery Society on Jan. 16, 1833. Praises Mrs. Child's writings in favor of reforms. Sends a photograph of himself.