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Descriptive Summary

Repository: Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University
Location: b
Call No.: MS Am 1169.2
Call No.: MS Am 1169.3
Call No.: MS Am 1169.4
Call No.: MS Am 1169.5
Creator: Garrison, Wendell Phillips, 1840-1907.
Title: Correspondence,
Date(s): 1857-1907.
Quantity: 6 boxes (3 linear ft.)
Abstract: Correspondence of Wendell Phillips Garrison, editor of The Nation, including correspondence with his brother Francis Jackson Garrison.

Acquisition Information:

Historical Note

Wendell Phillips Garrison was editor of The Nation. His brother Francis Jackson Garrison (1848-1916) was associated with Riverside Press and Houghton Mifflin Company.

Arrangement

Organized into the following series:

• I. bMS Am 1169.2: Letters from Wendell Phillips Garrison to various correspondents
• II. bMS Am 1169.3: Wendell Phillips Garrison's lecture on Thomas Bewick
• III. bMS Am 1169.4: Letters from Wendell Phillips Garrison to Francis Jackson Garrison
• IV. bMS Am 1169.5: Letters from Francis Jackson Garrison to Wendell Phillips Garrison.

Scope and Content

Chiefly correspondence between Wendell Phillips Garrison and Francis Jackson Garrison concerning the biography the brothers wrote about their father, William Lloyd Garrison, as well as personal topics. Also includes letters from Wendell Phillips Garrison to William Lloyd Garrison, William Everett, and Samuel May, as well as other Garrison family members, which refer to the abolition movement, the periodicals the Nation and the Liberator, and family matters. Some letters include newspaper clippings or pen and ink drawings. Collection also includes autograph manuscript lecture by Wendell Phillips Garrison concerning Thomas Bewick, the English engraver.

Container List

• Series: I. bMS Am 1169.2: Letters from Wendell Phillips Garrison to various correspondents
  • (1-175) Garrison, Wendell Phillips, 1840-1907. 171 A.L.s., 1 T.L.s., 1 MS.L., and 2 telegrams to [William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879)]; New York, Orange, N.J., etc., 31 Jul 1857-1879 14 Mar.
    *49M-169
  • (176-293) Garrison, Wendell Phillips, 1840-1907. 118 A.L.s. to [Helen Eliza (Benson) Garrison]; New York, Orange, N.J., etc., 27 Jul 1858 - 26 Dec 1875.
    Numbers 43 (7 Jul 1867), 59 (12 Jul 1870) and 90 ([25 Dec] 1872) includes letters from Lucy (McKim) Garrison to [Helen Eliza (Benson) Garrison]
    Numbers 53 (21 Aug 1869), 54 (4 [Oct 1869]), 56 (26 Dec 1869), 65 (29 Jan 1871) and 66 (5 Feb 1871) include letters from George Thompson Garrison to [Helen Eliza (Benson) Garrison]
    *49M-170
  • (294-361) Garrison, Wendell Phillips, 1840-1907. 68 A.L.s. to William [Lloyd Garrison (1838-1909)]; New York, Orange, N.J., etc., 5 Aug 1859 - 9 May 1894.
    *49M-171
  • (362-392) Garrison, Wendell Phillips, 1840-1907. 29 A.L.s., 1 MS.L. (copy), and a telegram to Fanny [(Garrison) Villard]; New York, Orange, N.J., etc., 25 Jul 1861 - 21 Dec 1906.
    Number 1 (25 Jul 1861) includes A.L.s., Francis Jackson Garrison to Fanny (Garrison) Villard.
    Numbers 9 (20 Jul 1866) and 11 (25 Aug 1866) include letters from Lucy (McKim) Garrison to Fanny (Garrison) Villard.
    Number 31 (21 Dec 1906) is a copy (in Mrs. Villard's hand) of Garrison's last letter to her, sent after his death and received 4 Mar 1907. Enclosed in A.L.s., Fanny (Garrison) Villard to Frank [i.e. Francis Jacks on Garrison]; [New York] 4 Mar 1907. 1s.(3p.) env.
    *49M-172
  • (393-419) Garrison, Wendell Phillips, 1840-1907. 26 A.L.s. and a telegram to Theresa [(Holmes) Garrison]; New York, Orange, N.J., etc., 15 Sep 1893-1905 8 Dec.
    Enclosed in number 23 (10 Feb 1903) is a poem (by Philip McKim Garrison?) beginning: We started for Manhasset through a blooming bunch of smoke. In Wendell P. Garrison's hand.
    *49M-173
  • (420-437) Garrison, Wendell Phillips, 1840-1907. 17 A.L.s. to [Mrs. Kenyon] Cox; [Orange, N.J., etc.] 24 Jun 1877-1903 13 Dec. With 3 extra envelopes.
    *49M-174
  • (438-482) Garrison, Wendell Phillips, 1840-1907. 45 A.L.s. to [William] Everett; New York, 31 Aug 1885-1906 28 May.
    *49M-175
    The letters are numbered from 438 to 482.
  • (483-575) Garrison, Wendell Phillips, 1840-1907. 93 A.L.s. to [Samuel] May; New York, Orange, N.J., etc., 5 Sep 1858-1898 26 Jan.
    *49M-176
    The letters are numbered from 483 to 575.

• Series: II. bMS Am 1169.3: Wendell Phillips Garrison lecture on Thomas Bewick
  • bMS Am 1169.3 Garrison, Wendell Phillips, 1840-1907. [Lecture on Thomas Bewick] A.MS.s.; [New York or Orange, N.J., 1877?] 45s.(45p.)
    *49M-177

• Series: III. bMS Am 1169.4: Letters from Wendell Phillips Garrison to Francis Jackson Garrison
  • Garrison, Wendell Phillips, 1840-1907. 2778 letters to Frank [i.e., Francis Jackson Garrison]; New York, Orange, N.J., etc., 1861-1907.
    The letters are A.L.s. except 24 telegrams, 1 MS.L., 1 T.L.s., and 2 printed letters. They are numbered from 1 to 2778.
    *49M-178
  • Some letters by other people are included with these letters:
    • No.525 (19 Jul 1881) includes A.L.s., Charles L. Woodward to Wendell P. Garrison; New York, 18 Jul 1881.
    • No.631 (11 Dec 1882) encloses A.L.s., George Edward Woodberry to Wendell P. Garrison; Beverly, 9 Dec 1882. 1s.(1p.)
      Incomplete: last half of last page only.
    • No.637 (3 Jan 1883) includes A.L.s., Katherine (Garrison) Norton to Francis Jackson Garrison; [Orange, N.J.] 1 Jan 1883.
    • No.656 (12 Mar 1883) encloses A.L.s., Mary H. Gulliver to Wendell P. Garrison; [Pawtucket, R.I.?] 8 Mar 1883. 2s.(2p.)
      Mrs. Gulliver was formerly Mrs. Ray Potter.
    • No.850 (27 Feb [1885]) includes A.L.s., Theodore L. De Vinne to Wendell P. Garrison; New York, 26 Feb 1885.
    • No.884 (2 Jun 1885) includes MS.L. (illegible initials) the Century company to Wendell P. Garrison; New York, 29 May 1885.
    • No.904 (18 Jul 1885) encloses A.L.s., B. W. Bond to Wendell P. Garrison; New York, 17 Jul 1885. 1s.(2p.) postcard.
    • No.1110 (25 Oct 1886) encloses A.L.s., W. H. Whitmore to [Wendell P. Garrison]; [n.p.] 24 Oct[1886] 1s.(1p.)
      Incomplete: last part of last page only.
    • No.1274 (1 Jun 1888) includes T.L.s., W. Lewis Fraser to Wendell P. Garrison; New York, 31 May 1888.
    • No.1277 ([6 or 7 Jun 1888]) includes A.L.s., George Howes Whittle to Wendell P. Garrison; New York, 6 Jun 1888.
    • No.1523 (3 Apr 1890) encloses MS.L.s., E. A. Spofford to Wendell [P. Garrison]; New York, 3 Apr 1890. 1s.(1p.)
    • No.2112 (3 Jun 1897) includes T.L.s., Ripley Hitchcock to [Wendell P.] Garrison; New York, 2 Jun 1897.

• Series: IV. bMS Am 1169.5: Letters from Francis Jackson Garrison to Wendell Phillips Garrison

• Garrison, Francis Jackson, 1848-1916. 81 A.L.s., 2 T.L.s., and 2 telegrams to Wendell Phillips Garrison; [Boston, etc.] 30 Mar 1866 - [1906]
  Number 80 (5 Oct 1905) includes A.L.s., Wendell Phillips Garrison to William [Lloyd Garrison (1838-1909)?]
  Number 82 ([1906?]) includes A.L.s., Gustave Kruell to [Francis Jackson?] Garrison; East Orange, 28 Jun 1906.
  *49M-168