[Letter to] My much esteemed Friend
Contributors: Benson, Anna Elizabeth., 1801-1843, recipient
Series: William Lloyd Garrison Correspondence (1823-1879)
Published: 1834
Place of publication: Freedom's Cottage, Roxbury, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; History; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists
Notes: Holograph, signed.

William Lloyd Garrison expresses his happiness in Helen Eliza Benson (Garrison)'s love. He points out the paradox of his tenderness combined with a fortitude in martyrdom. He admires Anna E. Benson's courage in going to prison (with Prudence Crandall).

Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison,$cv.1, no.139.