Letter from Oliver Johnson, New York, [N.Y.], to William Lloyd Garrison, Feb[ruary] 22, 1874

Oliver Johnson forwards to William Lloyd Garrison a letter from Benjamin C. Bacon, expressing his surprise that one so wholly "feeble in body" as Bacon should live so long while younger men in full health perish. Johnson states that he has completed his third article on the early history of the antislavery movement, and that the fourth article should detail the founding of the Liberator and the New England Anti-Slavery Society. Johnson tells Garrison of his membership in a literary club in New York City, whose members figure in "Mr. Frothingham's society", and proposes to use Garrison's life as the subject matter for his entry as the essayist for the club's March meeting. Johnson requests that Garrison not neglect the writing of his promised sketch on Benjamin Lundy's life.
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