[Letter to] My dear George
Contributors: Benson, George William, 1808-1879, recipient
Series: William Lloyd Garrison Correspondence (1823-1879)
Published: 1835
Place of publication: Brooklyn, [Conn.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; History; Thanksgiving Day; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Henry Egbert Benson and George Thompson arrived safely. George Thompson had a rough passage. George Thompson's departure leaves a void in spite of Theodore D. Weld in the West and Henry B. Stanton in Rhode Island. Garrison facetiously describes Thanksgiving feasting and questions the wisdom of a civil officer proclaiming Thanksgiving. Gerrit Smith, a former pillar of the Colonization Society, has joined the abolitionists.

Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.1, no.228.