[Letter to] Beloved Friend
Contributors: May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871, recipient
Series: William Lloyd Garrison Correspondence (1823-1879)
Published: 1834
Place of publication: Boston, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Unionist; History; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists
Notes: Holograph, signed.

William Lloyd Garrison considers it scandalous on the part of Connecticut to let the newspaper the Unionist die. He makes puns on the names of the journalists Stone, Webb, and Holbrook. Dr. Atlee chided Garrison for an advertisement for a colored wife [that was printed in the Liberator?]. Garrison discusses plans for his marriage to Helen Eliza (Benson) on September 4; Samuel Joseph May is officiating the ceremony. H proposes that Mr. & Mrs. May leave Brooklyn and share Garrison's cottage in Roxbury. He regrets the news of the mob violence in New York and the attacks on A. Tappan and Samuel H. Cox. He blames William L. Stone and James W. Webb. David Lee Child will speak in South Reading on Aug. 1.

Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.1, no.164.