[Letter to] Friend Garrison
Contributors: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879. recipient
Series: William Lloyd Garrison Correspondence (1823-1879)
Published: 1849
Place of publication: Burlington, N.J
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; History; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists
Description: B. R. Downes tells of his own financial difficulties. He says that Bishop Doane has gone bankrupt. B. R. Downes tells of the bigotry of the average citizen of Pennsylvania and especially a boarding house owned by a "family of pious pro slavery bigots." Counterbalanced by those "manifestations of prejudice" are the great workers of the abolitionist cause, namely Lucretia Mott, Henry Clarke Wright, and the Burleighs.
Notes: Holograph, signed.

The delivery address is: Wm Lloyd Garrison Ed[itor] Liberator, Cornhill, Boston. Care of H. K. Downes.