Holograph, signed.

William Lloyd Garrison comments on the clerical appeal: "What latent feelings, think you, have stirred up Messrs. Fitch and Towne to make such a strange 'Appeal?' Tell me whether there is not some sectarian ill-will, some 'clerical' apprehension, at the bottom of this movement." Garrison's review of the appeal will probably alienate some subscribers to the Liberator and gain others in their place. The appeal used by his enemies will injure the anti-slavary cause. Garrison tells of his wife's illness, himself, and his wife's sisters. Garrison discourses on gratitude and his own peace of mind. George W. Benson wants Garrison to go to the Thomsonian infirmary. If Oliver Johnson cannot stay until Garrison's return, Amos A. Phelps and Nathaniel Southard must help Isaac Knapp.

Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.2, no.87.