[Letter to] Dear George
Contributors: Benson, George William, 1808-1879, recipient
Series: William Lloyd Garrison Correspondence (1823-1879)
Published: 1838
Place of publication: Boston, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Marlborough Chapel (Boston, Mass.); History; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists
Notes: Holograph, signed.

At the time of the dedication ceremony for Marlborough Chapel, there were four companies of infantry and lancers ready for protection. There were placards inciting citizens against the abolitionists. William Lloyd Garrison describes the dedication discourse by Charles Fitch as an irrelevant humdrum. Mrs. Maria Weston Chapman is fatally ill with a "brain fever." Garrison will miss her ready aid. Mrs. Chapman was making arrangements for Garrison's salary. Garrison urges George William Benson to attend the convention in Boston. Garrison is in debt and had to borrow money to go to New York and Philadelphia. Mrs. (Abba May) Alcott would like to summer in Brooklyn, but she is very poor.

Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.2, no.119.