Manuscripts Relating to Slavery

: West India Emancipation; Manuscript letter in the hand of Wiliam Lloyd Garrison, for publication to advertise a "mass celebration" of the anniversary of the emanciaption of 800,000 slaves to the West India Islands [undated, but probably 1846]. On back in red, "Insert this evening - Wednesday morning - Thursday morning and evening." Addressed to Mr. R. F. Wallent, Antislavery Office, Boston.

: [Letter from J. M. M'Kim to S. H. Gay]; Four-page letter from J. M. M'Kim to S. H. Gay detailing the escape of slave [Henry 'Box' Brown] from Richmond [Virginia] to Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] via overland express in a box. M'Kim requests that Gay refrain from publishing the story, and to 'send him on' to Francis Jackson.

: [Letter to Wendall Phillips, Francis Jackson, and Samuel Philbrick]; Twenty-five page manuscript letter by George W. Putnam addressed to the Agency Committee of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Soceity, Wendell Phillips, Francis Jackson, and Samuel Philbrick, for publication in The Liberator, defending his "extravagant" expenses while on lecturing tours for the Society.