[Letter to] Honored Sir
Contributors: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, recipient
Published: 1876
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; History; Antislavery movements; Social reformers; Abolitionists
Other titles: William Lloyd Garrison Correspondence (1823-1879) (Boston Public Library)
Description: W. P. Norton informs William Lloyd Garrison that he had read in the papers "what purported" to be a letter from Garrison to a "colored man in Illinois" named Cyrus Darragan, and states that, whether "genuine or counterfeit", he found the letter to be so "sound in doctrine" and "worthy in note" that he read it to his "colored servants". Norton informs Garrison that he was amongst those who last March visited the city of Atlanta at the invitation of its Mayor and City Council, and comments briefly on the bounty placed on William Lloyd Garrison by the antebellums Georgia State Legislature.
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Title devised by cataloger.

Manuscript annotated on recto, with "42" in pencil beneath Norton's salutation to Garrison.