[Letter to] My darling Fanny
Contributors: Villard, Fanny Garrison, 1844-1928, recipient
Series: William Lloyd Garrison Correspondence (1823-1879)
Published: 1867
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; History; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists
Notes: Holograph, signed.

William Lloyd Garrison tells of the death of Mrs. Thankful Hussey Southwick: "You see, by the foregoing announcement, how busy the Common Destroyer is. No better woman than Thankful Southwick ever lived in the sphere of suffering humanity." Next week, Garrison leaves on his voyage for Europe. Mrs. Oliver Johnson is staying with Mrs. Helen Eliza Garrison.

On the verso, there is a unsigned letter by an unidentified person, perhaps addressed to one of William Lloyd Garrison's children, dated April 29, 1867, Monday morning. The letter says that Thankful Southwick suddenly died this morning. "Last Thursday Oliver Johnson and your father [William Llloyd Garrison?] fortunately passed the afternoon there with them at Grantville."