[Letter to] My beloved friend, S. J. May
Contributors: May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871, recipient
Series: William Lloyd Garrison Correspondence (1823-1879)
Published: 1866
Place of publication: Roxbury, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Antislavery movements; Christmas; Abolitionists; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

William Lloyd Garrison writes: "I am pained to learn, by the Traveller of last evening, that you are too ill to perform your pulpit duties; but the paragraph does not state the nature of your sickness." William Lloyd Garrison is "aging" and has not recovered completely from the effects of the injury to his arm and shoulder. William Lloyd Garrison says that Mrs. Helen Eliza Garrison "for some time past, has been feeling very miserably, and this has drawn upon my sympathies, and made it dutiful for me (esecially in the absence of Fanny and Frank in Europe) to give her all my time and attention---she having had no nurse, and finding it impracticable to obtain one to her mind." Francis Jackson Garrison arrived in Munich on Oct. 29; he and the Villards will go to Italy in March. William Lloyd Garrison discusses the observance of Christmas.