Gratified to know that WPG’s father, William Lloyd Garrison, approved of CD’s words on slavery in Journal of researches.
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Gratified to know that WPG’s father, William Lloyd Garrison, approved of CD’s words on slavery in Journal of researches.
Sends his thanks for the beautifully illustrated book for children [What Mr Darwin saw]
and for the memorials of William Lloyd Garrison. [See 12248.]
Sends CD his version for children of Journal of researches [What Mr Darwin saw].
During the last illness of his father, William Lloyd Garrison, WPG showed him CD’s passages on slavery.
"In combating the enemies of freedom in this country he [W. L. Garrison] emancipated himself from the theology the destruction of which is perhaps your highest title to the honor of your own time and the blessings of posterity."
Thanks CD for his good opinion of his book, What Mr Darwin saw,
and his expressions [concerning W. L. Garrison] "which will be treasured by his children".