BIB_ID
102904
Accession number
MA 925.82
Creator
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879.
Display Date
1878 Mar. 7.
Credit line
Bequest of Annie Fields, 1915.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.1 cm
Notes
Includes a printed copy of Garrison's "Human Equality" on the verso of p. 1.
Part of an album of manuscript poems and letters of nineteenth-century English and American authors collected by Mrs. Annie Fields, author and literary hostess in Boston. Manuscripts in the album are described in individual records; see MA 925 for more information.
The sonnet which the author wrote on the wall of his cell after he was imprisoned for his anti-slavery sentiments in Baltimore in 1830.
Part of an album of manuscript poems and letters of nineteenth-century English and American authors collected by Mrs. Annie Fields, author and literary hostess in Boston. Manuscripts in the album are described in individual records; see MA 925 for more information.
The sonnet which the author wrote on the wall of his cell after he was imprisoned for his anti-slavery sentiments in Baltimore in 1830.
Provenance
Annie Fields.
Summary
Sending Fields a copy of his "Sonnet on the Free Mind" at Fields' request; explaining the circumstances under which he wrote the poem.
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