[Letter to] My dear Friend
Contributors: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, recipient
Published: 1845
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women social reformers; Pacifists; Abolitionists; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; Social reformers; History
Other titles: William Lloyd Garrison Correspondence (1823-1879) (Boston Public Library)
Description: Elizabeth Pease Nichol forwards to William Lloyd Garrison a letter of introduction from George Wilson McCree, whom she describes as a "true & thoroughgoing advocate of peace principles" and a "warm friend to the anti slavery cause". Pease Nichol expresses her desire for Garrison to take greater care, asserting that there "seems to be a kind of ambition in men like [Garrison] to die martyrs to the good cause".
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Title devised by cataloger.

Manuscript annotated on recto, with "31" appearing in pencil on top-left margin of page, and "Garrison MSS." stamped in blue ink above the address and date on letterhead.

Manuscript annotated on verso with two postal stamps, one in black ink reading "L MY 17 A", and another in blue ink reading "Darlington MY16 1845 C".

Manuscript addressed on verso to "Wm. Lloyd Garrison 25 Cornhill Boston Massachusetts".