[Letter to] My dear friend
Contributors: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, recipient
Published: 1851
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Anti-slavery fairs; Abolitionists; Edinburgh Ladies Anti-Slavery Society; Women abolitionists; National Anti-slavery Bazaar (1851 : Boston, Mass.); Antislavery movements; Social reformers; History
Other titles: William Lloyd Garrison Correspondence (1823-1879) (Boston Public Library)
Description: Andrew Paton recounts to William Lloyd Garrison his grief over the Edinburgh Ladies Anti-Slavery Society's report on its reasons for withholding contributions to the Boston Bazaar, and labels their claims "offensive". Paton declares his view that the Quakers are "in many respects a strange set, & beyond being fathomed in their motives & conduct".
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Title devised by cataloger.

Manuscript annotated on recto, with "3" in pencil beneath Paton's salutation to Garrison.

Manuscript addressed on verso to "Mr Wm. L. Garrison 21 Cornhill Boston U. S."