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William Lloyd Garrison collection11.MWalB02655 This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on September 26, 2021. eng Describing Archives: A Content Standard Brandeis University 415 South St. Waltham, MA URL: https://findingaids.brandeis.edu/ William Lloyd Garrison collection11.MWalB02655 Table of Contents Summary Information .................................................................................................................................... 3 Scope and Contents ........................................................................................................................................ 4 Administrative Information ............................................................................................................................ 4 Related Materials ........................................................................................................................................... 5 Other Descriptive Information ....................................................................................................................... 5 Collection Inventory ....................................................................................................................................... 5 - Page 2 - William Lloyd Garrison collection11.MWalB02655 Summary Information Repository: Brandeis University Title: William Lloyd Garrison collection ID: 11.MWalB02655 Date [inclusive]: 1831-1916 Date [bulk]: 1860-1868 Physical Description: 0.50 Linear Feet Physical Description: 1 manuscript box other_unmapped Abstract: Arranged in sixteen folders, according to a previously existing Brandeis manuscript collection record: 1. The pre-war slavery controversy; 2. The conduct of the war (Copperheads, Emancipation Proclamation); 3. Black competence; 4. Readmission of former Confederate states; 5. Abolitionism and reform movements; 6. The Bible/Sabbath; 7. Temperance; 8. On free speech; 9. Woman suffrage; 10. Spiritualism; 11. Assorted notices presumed to have appeared in the Liberator; 12. Garrison family correspondence; 13. The Garrison Testimonial Fund Drive; 14. Letters to Francis Jackson Garrison; 15. Unclassified items; 16. Miscellaneous items. Note that many items in this collection are undated; dates noted in brackets are generally those noted in the original Brandeis manuscript collection record and/or those surmised from the content of the texts. Each item is also marked with its item number (e.g., 3-1, 3-2, 3-3, etc.). Some items have writing on their reverse sides which is not that of William Lloyd Garrison, as Garrison evidently recycled paper for future reuse. Numbers in parentheses in item descriptions refer to these other writers. For example, 3/5 (1) means three pieces of paper, five page sides of relevant material, and one page side of unrelated material; an item listed only as 3/5 includes three pieces of paper, 5 page sides of relevant material, and one blank page side. Only a small attempt has been made to identify the various correspondences on the backs of the Garrison material. T: typed; A: autograph; L: letter; N: note(s); D: document; S: signed; I: initialed. E.g., ALI: autograph letter initialed. For more information about each folder, please consult the descriptions in the box and folder listing. - Page 3- William Lloyd Garrison collection11.MWalB02655 Preferred Citation William Lloyd Garrison collection, Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department, Brandeis University ^ Return to Table of Contents Scope and Contents This collection contains over 251 written pieces relating to American abolitionist and Boston newspaper publisher William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879). The collection includes numerous autograph manuscripts (1-12 pages in length) of lectures and editorials which appeared in Garrison's newspaper, the Liberator, before, during, and after the American Civil War. Also included are many notes and extracts, jotted down for reference by Garrison for Liberator editorials and lectures; dockets on some indicate use. In addition, the collection includes 88 letters authored by William Lloyd Garrison, his family members, and various other writers. Many of these letters were written by well-known fellow abolitionists on the occasion of the Garrison Testimonial Fund Drive, including ones by Mary Livermore, Samuel May, Jr., G.F. Noyes, Isaac Pitman, Samuel Fessenden, G.P. Bigelow, Benjamin Cheever, and Caroline Weston. Another significant portion of the letters offers condolences to Francis Jackson Garrison upon the death of his wife and son. ^ Return to Table of Contents Administrative Information Publication Statement Brandeis University 415 South St. Waltham, MA URL: https://findingaids.brandeis.edu/ Conditions Governing Access Access to the collection is in accordance with the policies of the Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department, Brandeis University. - Page 4- William Lloyd Garrison collection11.MWalB02655 Conditions Governing Use Requests to reproduce or publish material from the collection should be directed to the Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department, Brandeis University. Source of Acquisition Donated by Philip D. Sang. ^ Return to Table of Contents Related Materials Related Materials For more, see: http://lts.brandeis.edu/research/archives-speccoll/collections/speccoll/ mancoll2.html#eruchames ^ Return to Table of Contents Other Descriptive Information Addenda to this collection may not be listed in the finding aid, but may be available for research use. Please contact us for more information. http://brandeisspecialcollections.blogspot.com/2011/10/william- lloyd-garrison-collection.html ^ Return to Table of Contents Collection Inventory Box 1 Box 1 The pre-war slavery controversy Box 1 Folder 1 1-1 [Garrison, William Lloyd?], sermon notes on the Southern Box 1 Folder 1 rebellion as a function of Northern "complicity" and past compromises, 3/5, AN, [1863?] - Page 5- William Lloyd Garrison collection11.MWalB02655 Date: [1863?] Scope and Contents Includes excerpt from John Greenleaf Whittier poem read before the Alumni of the Friends' Yearly Meeting School, at Newport, RI, 15th, 6 mo., 1863. "Whittier" and "Whittier's notes" annotated in pencil by an unknown hand. 1-2 Garrison, William Lloyd, pamphlet review of "Inorganic Box 1 Folder 1 Forces Ordained to Supersede Human Slavery," [Boston?], 3/5, AN, 1860 Date: 1860 Scope and Contents Garrison's review criticizes the pamphlet's non-moral look at slavery. Pamphlet written by Thomas Eubank (New York: William Everdell & Sonds, 104 Fulton Street, 1860). Pamphlet consists of an essay originally read before the American Ethnological Society. Last page is written on the back of a financial form. 1-3 Garrison, William Lloyd, "Vindication of Box 1 Folder 1 Massachusetts," [i]Liberator[/i] editorial, Boston, 5/6 (2), AN, March 22, 1861 Date: March 22, 1861 Scope and Contents Editorial discusses Senator Wilson, the Crittenden compromise, and fugitive slave hunting. Published version is on page 46 of the [i]Liberator[/i]. Unrelated material on reverse sides of some pages looks to be a listing of letters and articles for publication. 1-4 Garrison, William Lloyd, [i]Liberator[/i] article criticizing Box 1 Folder 1 Seward's speech in Madison, Wisconsin, Boston, 6/6 (6), AN, 1861 Date: 1861 Scope and Contents Page 2 is missing. Reverse sides of pages 5, 6, and 7 consist of portions of a letter to Garrison on "Free Speech" (material on reverse sides of other pages is unrelated). 1-5 Garrison, William Lloyd, criticism of an unnamed pro- Box 1 Folder 1 Southerner, fragment, 1/1 (1), AN, [pre-Civil War] Date: [pre-Civil War] - Page 6- William Lloyd Garrison collection11.MWalB02655 Scope and Contents Material on reverse side is a letter signed by E. B. Chase. 1-6 Garrison, William Lloyd, criticism of an unnamed Southern Box 1 Folder 1 [?] publication for saying that the wage and tenant system is worse than the slavery system, fragment (only page 2), 1/1, AN, [pre-Civil War] Date: [pre-Civil War] 1-7 Garrison, William Lloyd, "Divest ourselves of prejudice and Box 1 Folder 1 make atonement", fragment (only page 3), 1/1, AN, [pre-Civil War] Date: [pre-Civil War] 1-8 Garrison, William Lloyd, [quoting others' letters?] regarding Box 1 Folder 1 the fugitive slave law controversy, fragment (only pages 3-6), 1/4, AN, [1852] Date: [1852] 1-9 Garrison, William Lloyd, "Three years ago, I was a Box 1 Folder 1 disunionist," fragment (only pages 4-5), 1/2, AN, [1863?] Date: [1863?] Scope and Contents Garrison argues that there is no need to be a disunionist because slaveholders are out of the Union. Some points of the text are crossed out. 1-10 Garrison, William Lloyd, speech advocating disunion, Box 1 Folder 1 fragment (only pages 9-10),1/2, AN, [pre-Civil War] Date: [pre-Civil War] 1-11 Garrison, William Lloyd, "Bad as the Constitution is, it has Box 1 Folder 1 at last become so intolerable to the Southern slave-traffickers that they will no longer live under it," fragment (only page 10), 1/1 (1), AN, [pre-Civil War] Date: [pre-Civil War] 1-12 Garrison, William Lloyd, "Her reliance upon the Irish Box 1 Folder 1 population," fragment (only pages 21-22), 1/2, AN, [pre-Civil War] Date: [pre-Civil War] Scope and Contents Points argued on the side of disunion on the eve of the Civil War. 1-13 Garrison, William Lloyd, commentary and quoted note Box 1 Folder 1 from a former slave, 1/2, AN, 1847 Date: 1847 - Page 7- William Lloyd Garrison collection11.MWalB02655 Scope