Letter from Harriet Winslow Sewall, Melrose, [Massachusetts], to William Lloyd Garrison, [1864 May]

Harriet Winslow Sewall writes to William Lloyd Garrison inviting the Garrison family to stay for a month in their home in Melrose, "not as boarders but as guests." Sewall says that "as citizens of a Republic to whose redemption you have devoted your life, we all owe you a debt that cannot be so easily paid." She suggests that the "change of air" could be beneficial to Mrs. [Eliza Helen] Garrison and that ever her "Aunt Robie who came here one time from a sick bed said she had never improved any where so fast."

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