[Letter to] My dear and loving Helen
Contributors: Garrison, Helen Eliza, 1811-1876. recipient
Series: William Lloyd Garrison Correspondence (1823-1879)
Published: 1838
Place of publication: Philadelphia, [Penn.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; History; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists
Notes: Holograph, signed.

William Lloyd Garrison and Henry C. Wright arrived in Philadelphia on Thursday; John G. Whittier and the Rev. Mr. & Mrs. Root were with them.They stayed with Edward Needles, a Quaker. Garrison saw the newly erected Pennsylvania Hall. Garrison and Wright visited the Grimkés; Garrison is afraid that Angelina Grimké will be influenced by Theodore Dwight Weld's sectarianism after she marries Weld. Garrison discusses his beliefs on religion. He gives a humorous description of John Gurney, "a distinguished orthodox Friend from England." While Alvan Stewart and other abolitionist friends were traveling by steamboat from Bordentown to Philadelphia, they held a discussion on slavery in a cabin. The captain broke up the meeting because slaveholders were shouting to throw the abolitionists overboard. The Quakers, including John Greenleaf Whittier, are unable to attend the wedding of Angelina Grimké and Theodore D. Weld for fear of being excommunicated from the Society of Friends. Even her sister Sarah Grimké "must be cut off for being with Angelina when married!"

Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.2, no.117.