[Letter to] My dear Garrison
Contributors: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, recipient
Published: 1869
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Abolitionists; Prayer; Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association; Antislavery movements; Social reformers; History
Other titles: William Lloyd Garrison Correspondence (1823-1879) (Boston Public Library)
Description: James Miller M'Kim writes William Lloyd Garrison returning to their previous conversation concerning prayer, and states his belief in prayer as he personally understands it: as a "means of personal purification and elevation of Character". M'Kim adds, however, that he not believe that God "gives" in response to prayer, labeling such belief as foolish, and insisting that those who do pray out of desire for acquisition are far from God, and that God is not moved by such "importunity".
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Title devised by cataloger.

Manuscript composed upon stationary bearing the typeset lettrehead of the "Pennsylvania Freemen's Relief Associaion, No. 711 Sansom Street, Philadelphia", with the association's officers listed on the top left of the sheet.