Letter from Sarah Pugh, Germantown, Philad[elphia, Pennsylvania], to Elizabeth Pease Nichol, [18]65 Decem[ber] 28

Sarah Pugh writes to Elizabeth Pease Nichol after reading "Garrison's Jubilant Song of Thanksgiving in the Liberator of the 22nd" and celebrating Nichol as an "earnest & faithful co-worker with our little band". Pugh asserts that while "abolitionists have not continued of 'one mind' as to the demands of the hour", they are still "eminently a 'band of brothers'". She shares news of Lucretia Mott and her son's life-threatening accident and mentions how receiving a letter from Nichol brought her "back to the time we first met." Pugh tells her that she passed Nichol's message to their friends and copies a note from Lizzie Gay to Nichol, adding details about Gay's children. She also discusses Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Wendell Phillips, and the marriage of Wendell Phillips Garrison to Lucy M'Kim and Fanny Garrison to "Mr. [Henry] Villard, "a German gentleman highly esteemed". In an additional note written in the margin of the first page, Pugh asks Nichol to tell Mary Estlin that she "hope[s] to write her & Harriet Lupton very soon" and to "dear Eliza Wigham, her mother & Mary Edmundson."
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