Lot 2222: GARRISON, WILLIAM LLOYD. 1805-1879.

Autograph Letter Signed (“Wm. Lloyd Garrison”), 1 p, 8vo, Boston, January 1, 1855, to Francis Amasa Walker.

In which the radical abolitionist responds to an autograph request from the young F.A. Walker, future Civil War General and prominent economist. In part: "Pardon me for so long neglecting (by an oversight) to comply with your request for my autograph ... It will be safe for you to have my handwriting in your possession in Massachusetts, but hardly so in Carolina. Wishing you ‘a happy new year,’ and that this may prove the long-desired jubilee to all the enslaved in our guilty land, I remain, Yours to break all fetters …"
Amasa Walker was at this date 14 years old.