![Letter from Julia A. Shearman, Lexington, [Virginia], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1866 March 30th](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn27/L3Bob3RvLzE4NjYvMDEvMDEvbGV0dGVyLWZyb20tanVsaWEtYS1zaGVhcm1hbi1sZXhpbmd0b24tdmlyZ2luaWEtdG8td2lsbGlhbS1sbG95ZC1nYXJyaXNvbi0xODY2LWZhY2ZjMS0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/320/514/jpg "Letter from Julia A. Shearman, Lexington, [Virginia], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1866 March 30th")
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Letter from Julia A. Shearman, Lexington, [Virginia], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1866 March 30th
Summary
In this letter to William Lloyd Garrison, Julia A. Shearman asks Garrison if he remembers meeting her during a visit to England to attend "the Antislavery convention which drew together the most distinguished philanthropists of the day." She informs Garrison that he spent an evening at her house where he took "a little girl of nine years old on your knee & call[ed] her you 'little abolitionist'?" Shearman tells Garrison that her family has since moved to the United States and she is currently "a missionary teacher to the Freedmen in this place" and her brother is a "lawyer of promise in N. York." Shearman also offers to write again and send Garrison more details about her work if he is interested.
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