[Letter to] Sir
Contributors: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, recipient
Series: William Lloyd Garrison Correspondence (1823-1879)
Published: 1840
Place of publication: Muswell Hill, [England]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; General Anti-slavery Convention (1st : 1840); Abolitionists; Women's rights; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

William Henry Ashurst discusses the refusal of the World's Anti-Slavery Convention to admit female delegates. He recommends entering a protest, thereby opening the way to debate the subject. Ashurst wrote a note to Wendell Phillips on June 17 advocating that Phillips give notice at the convention that he was going to urge the American anti-slavery societies to continue sending female delegates. Ashurst invites William Lloyd Garrison to his home to meet William and Mary B. Howitt.