"Holograph, signed. Title devised by cataloger. On verso, the letter is addressed to \"Mr. Wm Lloyd Garrison Boston Mass. (25 Cornhill).\" Along the head edge of the page, a note says that \"120 men & 191 women have signed petition to forward to Congress, from Mansfield, for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia.\" After the letter to Garrison, Stearns has written another letter to Charles Calistus Burleigh, dated December 20th, 1836, from Mansfield. Stearns says that \"Rev. Martin M. Braley, the gentlemen who made the prayer, amid the sound of drums and blowing of the bugle, when you last attempted to lecture in Mansfield, has requested me to write you stating that your services is wanted in the town of Dighton in this County.\" He says there has not been an antislavery lecturer in Dighton although he considers \"Bristol County to be 'ripe for the harvest, and ought by no means to be neglected.\" Stearns believes \"a large majority ... would embrace the cause of immediate emancipation ...\" and asks that if Burleigh cannot come lecture, he would ask \"Rev. O[range] Scott, of Lowell to go.\""
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"Letter from Isaac Stearns, Mansfield, [Massachusetts], to William Lloyd Garrison and Charles Calistus Burleigh, 1837 Jan[uary] 9th"
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creators
"Stearns, Isaac, 1790-1879 (Author); Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879 (Addressee); Burleigh, Charles C. (Charles Calistus), 1810-1878 (Addressee)"
