[Letter to] Dear Aunt
Contributors: Newell, Charlotte Lloyd, d. 1857, recipient
Series: William Lloyd Garrison Correspondence (1823-1879)
Published: 1854
Place of publication: Brooklyn, [Conn.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; History; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists
Notes: Holograph, signed with initials.

On pages three through four of this manuscript, there is a letter by William Lloyd Garrison to Aunt Charlotte Lloyd Newell. The journey from Boston to Brooklyn, Conn., took four hours. In William L. Garrison's courting days, before railroad, the same journey took fifteen hours or more. He has not been to Brooklyn in 14 years. Rain is needed here. William L. Garrison writes: "Tell George [T. Garrison] he must rusticate a week at Hopedale, [Massachusetts] as I am sure Mr. and Mrs. Fish will be much pleased to have him with them, as he is a favorite of theirs." William L. Garrison is to lecture in a Unitarian church and also in the village of Killingby.

On pages two through three of this manuscript, there is a separate letter by Helen Eliza Garrison to Aunt Charlotte Newell. Helen E. Garrison tells about their pleasant visit with Philip Scarborough. Helen will pass the old homestead today. Brother George W. Benson is in Philadelphia on business.

Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.4, no.93.