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Browsing named entities in Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall). You can also browse the collection for William Lloyd Garrison or search for William Lloyd Garrison in all documents.
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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Mrs. S. E. Sewall . (search)
To Mrs. S. E. Sewall. Wayland, June 17, 1879.
During these weeks, so filled with memories of our friend Garrison, I have seemed to feel the presence of you and your dear, good husband, as you say you have felt line.
I thought of you continually — on the day of the funeral, and while reading the beautiful tributes offered by Phillips and Weld and Whittier.
If his spirit was there, how happy he must have been!
The general laudation in the newspapers was truly wonderful.
If any prophet ha ty years ago, who would have believed him?
It seems to me there never was so great a moral revolution in so short a time.
It was elevating and thrilling to read the funeral services, and it must have been much more so to have heard them.
If Mr. Garrison was mistaken in his strong belief that individual, conscious existence continued elsewhere, he will never know of his mistake ; but I think he was not mistaken.
I suppose you noticed that Whittier recognized his spirit as still active in defe
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Miss Anne Whitney . (search)
To Miss Anne Whitney. Wayland, June, 1879.
I am glad you had such a pleasant evening with Garrison.
He has been a singularly fortunate man. Fortunate in accomplishing his purposes; fortunate in drawing around him the best spirits of his time; fortunate in having an amiable, sympathizing wife; fortunate in having excellent, devoted children, whose marriages have suited him, and who have lived in proximity to him; fortunate in having his energies developed by struggle in early life; fortuna
Death will be to him merely passing out of one room filled with friends into another room still more full of friends.
It is wonderful how one mortal may affect the destiny of a multitude.
I remember very distinctly the first time I ever saw Garrison.
I little thought then that the whole pattern of my life-web would be changed by that introduction.
I was then all absorbed in poetry and painting, soaring aloft on Psyche-wings into the ethereal regions of mysticism.
He got hold of the strin
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Theodore D. Weld . (search)
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Index. (search)