[Letter to] Respected Sir
Contributors: Dole, Ebenezer, 1776-1847, recipient
Series: William Lloyd Garrison Correspondence (1823-1879)
Published: 1832
Place of publication: Boston, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Abolitionists; National Convention of Free People of Color; History; African Americans; Antislavery movements; Colonization
Notes: Handwritten copy of letter; not William Lloyd Garrison's handwriting. Whereabouts of original manuscript unknown.

In this letter, William Lloyd Garrison introduces the Rev. Moses Thacher; Thacher will deliver the address at the Anti-Masonic State Convention, held in in Augusta, Maine. The friends of the American Colonization Society were defeated in the weekly debates in Boston. Garrison attended the National Convention of Free People of Color. Garrison has sent to Ebenezer Dole 25 copies of his "Thoughts on Colonization" to be freely distributed. Garrison criticizes the July 4th celebrations; no meetinghouse available for his 4th of July lecture on slavery.

Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.1, no.66.