[Letter to] My dear Garrison
Contributors: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, recipient
Published: 1870
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Nation (New York, N.Y. : 1865); Suffrage; Abolitionists; Women's rights; History; Antislavery movements; Social reformers; Women
Other titles: William Lloyd Garrison Correspondence (1823-1879) (Boston Public Library)
Description: James Miller M'Kim informs William Lloyd Garrison that though the Nation included Garrison's name amongst those listed to be in attendance for a celebration of the "termination of the Anti-Slavery agitation", he was "not looking for [Garrison] on the occasion".  M'Kim asserts that the antislavery movement has had "two" endings, an "actual one & a dramatic one". M'Kim reports that he is following the Suffrage movement in the papers "with great interest", but "not with full sympathy". M'Kim states that while he has no doubt that the women's suffrage movement would do good, he believes the efforts expounded could be better directed in a manner that would be good "both for woman & for the country". M'Kim affirms his desire for woman suffrage, but offers his uncertainty as to whether the "means to an end" of the vote constitutes a "sure means to the great ends" desired.
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Title devised by cataloger.

Manuscript composed upon stationary bearing the typeset letterhead of the "Office of the Nation, No. 3 Park Place, New York".