to Wendell P. Garrison

Purvis, Robert, 1810-1898 to Wendell P. Garrison

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GLC#
GLC08944
Type
Letters
Date
February 17, 1881
Author/Creator
Purvis, Robert, 1810-1898
Title
to Wendell P. Garrison
Place Written
Washington, District of Columbia
Pagination
6 p. : Height: 20.5 cm, Width: 12.5 cm
Primary time period
Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
Sub-Era
Slavery & Anti-slavery

Answers questions about William Lloyd Garrison. Comments on his 1833 trip to England, at which time "he was indicted for a libel, by several of the persecutors, of Miss." Explains how he, Lewis Tappan, and others helped Garrison escape apprehension and make the trip. Also comments on Nathaniel Jocelyn's 1833 portrait of Garrison, which was thought "by all his friends, as a most excellent likeness" and subsequently used to make engravings. Mentions the publication of the Liberator. Notes that he recollects Tappan making a statement at an 1833 convention, probably the Anti-Slavery Convention in Philadelphia. Wendell P. Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison's son, was then editing his father's collected papers.

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