[Incomplete letter to] My Dear Friend
Contributors: Pillsbury, Parker, 1809-1898, recipient
Series: William Lloyd Garrison Correspondence (1823-1879)
Published: 1859
Place of publication: Boston, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; History; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists
Notes: Holograph.

This letter appears to be a rough draft, with words crossed out and corrections made.

William Lloyd Garrison defends a statement of a humorous nature that he made at the annual meeting in January in which Parker Pillsbury took offense. Pillsbury confronted Garrison in a speech at the conference. Garrison claims that he merely reacted against the sombre views expressed by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Abby Kelley Foster, and Parker Pillsbury. Higginson accused Garrison of attacking him. Parker Pillsbury reproached Garrison for insulting Mrs. Foster.

Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.4, no.273.