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<p style="text-align:center;"><small>[Page: 1]</small></p>
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<div class="letter">
<p style="text-align:right;">Burlington</p>
<p style="text-align:right;">Nov. 6 1852</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"></p>
Peter Stills (a co<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">h</span>loured man), has lived in my employ for some months past, but have known him for two years. It affords me much pleasure in being able to [recommend] him, as an honest sober, industrious & capable man, perfectly trustworthy & ever willing to make himself generally [useful] either about the house or stable, I part with him reluctantly, he leaves me, to make an effort to redeem his wife & children from slavery
<p style="padding-left:10em;text-indent:-2em;"></p>
<p style="padding-left:13em;text-indent:-2em;">E. E. Boudinot</p>
⟨ The above named Peter Still was in my employ ten months, during which time he fully sustained the character given him by M<sup>r</sup> Boudinot. It gives me pleasure to add my name to this recommmendation. Mary A. Buckman ⟩ <br /><br />⟨ Judge Boudinot is one of our principal citizens, & I have entire confidence in his recommendation of Peter Still. Burlington, N.J., Nov. 6/52 Cortlandt Van Rensselaer ⟩</div>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><small>[Page: 2]</small></p>
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<div class="correspondence-action">Judge Boudinot<br /> &<br /> Mrs. Buckman</div>
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Letter of recommendation for Peter Still written by E.E. Boudinot, who reports that he has known Still for two years and has employed him for “some months past,” together with an added recommendation by Mary A. Buckman, who notes that Still was in her employ for ten months. This item includes an annotation by Cortlandt Van Rensselaer, Burlington, N.J., November 6, 1852, identifying Boudinot and commenting on his standing within the local community.
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<div>
<div class="correspondence-action"><br />
<p style="text-align:center;"><small>[Page: 1]</small></p>
<br /> Peter Still<br />Burlington New Jersey</div>
<div class="letter"><br />
<p style="text-align:center;"><small>[Page: 2]</small></p>
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<p style="text-align:right;">Franklin County Ala</p>
<p style="text-align:right;">June 25 1855</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Peter Still Dear Sir</p>
<p style="text-indent:4em;">I [received] your letter [written] March 13/55 and was glad to [hear] from you and family & the health of you all. [Together] with your Relations and friends and the safe [arrival] of your family which I thought you never would see this side of the grave for although it was [rumored] abroad I could not think it possible that you could or would enjoy such a good fortune [as] you [mention] all safe all happy in the place where hearts were made. glad to see you all safe & satisfied Dear sir you [most cordially] have mine & [family's] love & Respects to you & sister Levina Peter Levin & Catherine you mentioned in your letter that your motive for writing was to get some information respecting your little grandson peter he was born March 11<sup>th</sup> 1854 when your family left he was sick & hardly Expected to live but he is well now and a very fine child and [figuratively] speaking is your Self his head Eyes mouth & [complexion] is a perfect picture of you Sir I now [mention] that I saw Joseph Gist and he says that his Mother Brothers & sisters are all well also his grandmother and sends their best Respects to you & family in Regard to the fish trap Joseph [does] not seem to hold it but</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><small>[Page: 3]</small></p>
<p style="text-indent:4em;"><br /> but says that it is unprofitable he says that he [examined] it and saw that one side was broken down also he says that Jno & Louis McKiernan said that you Left it to them and there was something about the settlement of a <span style="font-style:italic;">coat[?]</span> which Leaves him not to hold the trap Joseph says that since you Left him he has felt Lost Ever since that your departure has filled him with Joy and [grief] and more [grief] than Joy also he says you must Remember him William Handy & family sends Respects to you and family Edward & Ann Eliza Hopkins [respects] to you & family</p>
<p style="padding-left:10em;text-indent:-2em;">No more to say now</p>
<p style="padding-left:13em;text-indent:-2em;">I. W. J. Carter <br /> per W. W. Handy</p>
</div>
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Carter, I? W. J? (per W.W. Handy), letter, Franklin County, Ala., June 25, 1855, to Peter Still, Burlington, New Jersey
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Carter, whose letter was postmarked at Tuscumbia, Alabama, acknowledges the receipt of Peter Still’s letter; relays his amazement that Still’s immediate family is free; sends greetings from himself and others; provides requested details concerning Still’s now healthy grandson Peter (born March 11, 1854); and reports on a fish trap that Still had owned.
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Still, Peter, b.1801 (Recipient)
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<div><br />
<p style="text-align:center;"><small>[Page: 1]</small></p>
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<div class="correspondence-action">Stephen A Chase Salem Jan 19 '54</div>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><small>[Page: 2]</small></p>
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<p style="text-align:right;">Salem</p>
<p style="text-align:right;">First month 12th. 1854</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">My Dear Friend <br /> Robert <span style="font-style:italic;">I.[?]</span> Murray</p>
<p style="text-indent:4em;">I take the liberty of giving the bearer Peter Still a letter to thee. - He is the colored man, whose story I partly related to thee in Boston. -</p>
<p style="text-indent:4em;">I think there is that in his story that verifies the proverb that "truth is stranger than fiction."</p>
<p style="text-indent:4em;">I do not doubt the truthfulness of Peter and he can tell thee his own story, which unfolds a phase in the history of slavery strongly illustrative of its evils, it oppressions, its injustice and its opposition to all that is good and kind and Christian.</p>
<p style="text-indent:4em;">I have ventured to tell Peter that I think he will find sympathizing friends in New York and among them the kind friend I now address.</p>
<p style="text-indent:4em;">My wife desires to be kindly remembered to thee with love to thy wife. - We remember with pleasure thy too short call upon us in the autumn - Please remember me respectfully to thy wife and believe me</p>
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<p style="padding-left:10em;text-indent:-2em;">Thy sincere friend,</p>
<p style="padding-left:13em;text-indent:-2em;">Stephen A. Chase</p>
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Letter of introduction for Peter Still written by Stephen A. Chase, which notes, in part, that Still’s tale “unfolds a phase in the history of slavery strongly illustrative of its evils, its oppressions, its injustice and its opposition to all that is good and kind and Christian.”
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<div>
<div class="letter"><br />
<p style="text-align:center;"><small>[Page: 1]</small></p>
<br />
<p style="text-align:right;">Burlington</p>
<p style="text-align:right;">Dec <span style="font-style:italic;">30[?]</span> 1855</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Most respected [friend]</p>
<p style="text-indent:4em;">I write to you to let you [know] that I would like you to send me that money that you [said] you [would] give me [for] my [trouble] and you [promised] it to me long [ago] and [I][don't] think [much] of you [for] telling me that story [about] it [I] am in a [suffering] state it is by you that [I] am [suffering][I] have not a [home][I] have no money to [pay to] my lord you must send me [some] money my Mother [said] if you [were] a gentlemen you would send me that money [for] my board but if you [don't] send me that [money] that my Mother is [coming]</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><small>[Page: 2]</small></p>
<p style="text-indent:4em;"><br /> down to see you [about] it she is [going] to [sell] you if you [don't] send me that money [I][want] it this week if you [please] if you bring it to me this [week] and if you [don't][want] to come to [our] house to [leave]<sup>it</sup> to uncle <span style="font-style:italic;">maclin[?]</span></p>
<p style="padding-left:10em;text-indent:-2em;"></p>
<p style="padding-left:13em;text-indent:-2em;">Murry Cornealous</p>
</div>
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Murry Cornealous [?] requests payment this week of a sum promised to him for his troubles on behalf of the letter’s recipient (as the writer needs the money to pay his board); notes that his mother will come to see the debtor if the money is not sent; and suggests that leaving the payment with “uncle maclin” would be acceptable.
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<div><br />
<p style="text-align:center;"><small>[Page: 1]</small></p>
<br />
<div class="letter">
<p style="text-align:right;">Fall River Mass</p>
<p style="text-align:right;">November 17th 1853</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">To Peter Still<br /> Sir</p>
<p style="text-indent:4em;">You are selecting contributions to purchase your wife & three children from slavery - I understand that <span style="text-decoration:underline;">$3,500</span> are required and that you have collected $2,400 & over —</p>
<p style="text-indent:4em;">I propose to you, that when you have raised a sum of money $2,900 more or less - a sum to which $600. added thereto will be sufficient to redeem and to pay for the freedom of your wife & those children. I hereby agree & promise to pay you <span style="font-style:italic;">on your order[?]</span> the said sum of Six Hundred dollars on satisfactory evidence of the fact, on condition, that you & <span style="font-style:italic;">[?]</span><span style="font-style:italic;">your[?]</span> wife & children shall come directly after they are free to my House & live with me as servants & work for me for a fair and reasonable consideration [until] you thereby shall earn the said six hundred dollars —</p>
<p style="padding-left:10em;text-indent:-2em;"></p>
<p style="padding-left:13em;text-indent:-2em;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Nathan Durfee</span></p>
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<div class="correspondence-action"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Witness</span><br /> <span style="font-style:italic;">Morton Edely[?]</span></div>
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Nathan Durfee, assuming that a total of 3,500 dollars is required to free Peter Still’s enslaved family, offers to pay 600 dollars to him, once that is the remaining sum which Still requires, provided the family members all then come to live with Durfee and work as servants in his household until the 600 dollars should be paid off. The letter bears the (partly illegible) signature of a witness to Durfee’s offer.
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<div>
<div class="letter"><br />
<p style="text-align:center;"><small>[Page: 1]</small></p>
<br />
<p style="text-align:right;">Medford</p>
<p style="text-align:right;">11 <span style="font-style:italic;">Mo[?]</span> 15 1857</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">[Respected Friend]</p>
<p style="text-indent:4em;">I [received] a letter from Dillwyn Smith a few days ago saying he was likely to be <span style="font-style:italic;">fined[?]</span> by Lanmaster for the balance of his bill which I regretted very much to hear as I expected <span style="font-style:italic;">thee[?]</span> had furnished ere this from the last conversation I had with thee at Burlington just before thee left for New England to sell Books Notwithstanding the <span style="font-style:italic;">arbitration[?]</span> found if necessary to reduce the bills for material favor I come to house &c. it does not altogether release Dillwyn from the full payment of some bills and still hold him liable. Now if they will not make any deduction Dillwyn will have paid or given thee more than any other person except thy Brother James. Now this falls very heavy on him at this time as he has met with many losses and further I want thee to take into consideration that Dillwyn, family & connections have done more for thee than all others with their money & [recommendation], - <span style="font-style:italic;">Now[?]</span> I think it justly done for thee to go forward at once and pay Lanmaster after getting him </p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><small>[Page: 2]</small></p>
<p style="text-indent:4em;"><br /> to deduct from his bill any amount he is missing, it is possible he may take half <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">if so much better</span> Now Peter as a friend I would advise thee to <span style="font-style:italic;">attend[?]</span> to the above [tomorrow] morning without fail as I should be very sorry for thee to [lose] the interest of thy best friends and injure the cause of freedom for the slave -</p>
<p style="padding-left:10em;text-indent:-2em;">From thy friend</p>
<p style="padding-left:13em;text-indent:-2em;">H. P. Ely</p>
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⟨ N.B. I forgot to mention about the painter Bill who is very urgent for payment which I hope thee see to soon &c H. P. Ely ⟩</div>
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Ely, H.P., letter, Medford, [N.J.], November 15, 1857, to "Resp[ec]t[e]d F[rien]d." [Peter Still]
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H.P. Ely informs Peter Still that he (Ely) has received a letter from Dillwyn Smith; alludes to a trip to New England by Still to sell books; reports that Smith is suffering financially, apparently as arbitration (relating to construction of Still’s house?) reduced the amount of money that Smith was to receive, despite related bills that Smith must still pay; believes that Still should pay one of Smith’s relevant bills, as Smith “has met with many losses” and “Dillwyn[’]s family & connections have done more for [him] than all others with their money & reccommendations [sic]”; further suggests that through inaction Still could “loose the interest of [his] best friends and injure the cause of freedom for the slave”; and adds, in a postscript, that he has forgotten to mention a bill from the painter, who urgently seeks payment.
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<div><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><small>[Page: 1]</small></p><br /><div class="letter">
<p style="text-align:right;">Roxbury</p>
<p style="text-align:right;">April 7, 1872</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Dear Mr. Still:</p>
<p style="text-indent:4em;"> I have already delayed too long in thanking you for your
presentation to me of your voluminous and well-executed work, “The
Underground Railroad.” I have examined it with a deep and thrilling interest. It
is a most important portion of Anti-Slavery History, which but for your
industry, research, and personal experience and knowledge, might nearly all have
been lost to posterity. Its reliableness, moreover, cannot be called in
question. It is, therefore, not “fiction <span style="font-style:italic;">founded[?]</span> upon fact,”
and embellished by a lively imagination, but fact without a particle of fiction,
and narrated<br /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><small>[Page: 2]</small></p><br /> in a simple, ingenuous, straightforward
manner, and needing no coloring whatever. What a revelation it makes of the
barbarities of the slave system - of the formidable obstacles which interposed
to prevent a successful exodus from the house of bondage - of the terrible
exposures and sufferings to which the fugitive slaves were subjected in their
attempts to be free - of the daring and heroism required to run the risk of
betrayal, recapture, starvation in the swamp and drowning in the river,
suffocation in trunk or box, seizure by two-legged and four-legged bloodhounds
in hot pursuit, and a thousand other perils! How it illustrates, too, the
object subservience of the nation to the Slave Power, so that even in
Boston the atrocious Fugitive<br /><p style="text-align:center;"><small>[Page: 3]</small></p><br /> Slave Law was as effectually enforced as it
could have been in New Orleans; and in all our broad
domains none <sup>could</sup> give shelter or assistance to the
hunted and famishing victim, except at the peril of <span style="font-style:italic;">fire[?]</span> and
imprisonment! And yet, numerous as are the instances you have recorded, they are
<sup>only</sup> samples of thousands of others which can never be
chronicled, running through six generations. May we trust our senses that
there is an end of all this wickedness -- that a final and marvelous
deliverance has been wrought for all in bondage? Yes, it is true: and there has
been the same divine interposition as of old. “And the Lord said, I have surely
seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by
reason of their<br /><p style="text-align:center;"><small>[Page: 4]</small></p><br /> taskmasters; for I know their sorrows, and I
am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians.” … “Thy right
hand, O Lord, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O Lord, hath dashed
in pieces the enemy!”
<p style="text-indent:4em;"> I hope that the sale of your work will be widely extended,
not only that the large expense incurred in its preparation and printing
may be liberally covered, but for the enlightenment of the rising
generations to the inherent cruelty of the defunct slave system, and to
perpetuate such an abhorrence of it as to prevent all further injustice
towards the colored population of our land. It is a book for every
household.
</p>
<p style="padding-left:10em;text-indent:-2em;">Yours, with best wishes,</p>
<p style="padding-left:13em;text-indent:-2em;">W<sup>m</sup> Lloyd
Garrison.
</p>⟨William Still.⟩
</div>
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Garrison, W[illia]m Lloyd, letter, Roxbury, [Mass.], April 7, 1872, to William Still.
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William Lloyd Garrison thanks William Still for the gift of Still's book on the Underground Railroad; comments on the volume’s presentation and contents, including the perils encountered by escaping slaves and the impact of the Fugitive Slave Law; and expresses the hope that the book will be sold widely, both to recoup the expense of preparing it and “for the enlightenment of the rising generation as to the inherent cruelty of the defunct slave system.”
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<div><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><small>[Page: 1]</small></p><br /><div class="letter">
<p style="text-align:right;">Roxbury</p>
<p style="text-align:right;">March 5, 1875</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Dear Mr. Still:</p>
<p style="text-indent:4em;"> The postman has just brought me your letter of the 3d inst., so that my reply can hardly reach you in
season for your Committee meeting to-morrow noon.
</p>
<p style="text-indent:4em;"> Please say to the Committee that I am very much obliged to them
for their courteous invitation to me to attend the centennial anniversary of
the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the Abolition of Slavery, &e.,
next month; but there is no prospect that I shall be able to be present, for
I am still a good deal crippled and a constant sufferer from a rheumatic
ailment which has afflicted me for the last two years, though I am at<br /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><small>[Page: 2]</small></p><br /> present somewhat better than formerly. I
should almost be willing to undertake a pedestrian tour to Philadelphia, if I
could only be assured of the free use of my limbs by the time the celebration is
to come off.
<p style="text-indent:4em;"> If I can do no more, I will at least try to send a letter,
expressive of my feelings, to be read on the occasion as a substitute for
my presence, should the Committee think proper.
</p>
<p style="text-indent:4em;"> How deeply it is to be regretted that the common school
provision <sup>(as intended by Mr. Sumner)</sup> was eliminated from
the Civil Rights Bill! Yet the passage of the Bill as it is, by Congress, is
more than Southern Rebeldom can bear, and will doubtless lead to many scenes of
violence; but it indicates progress in the right direction. No doubt an attempt
will be made to<br /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><small>[Page: 3]</small></p><br /> repeal it at the next session of Congress,
and perhaps successfully, by the Rebel-Democracy, into whose hands it now looks
as if the control of the Government is to pass at the close of
Grant's administration. How he is hated and maligned, and
also feared, by all the enemies of equal rights, North and South!
<p style="text-indent:4em;"> But, though the prospect is a dark one, let us abate nothing of
heart or hope as to the final result, which, if the friends of impartial
freedom remain true to the cause which they long ago espoused under far
more trying circumstances, cannot fail to be still more in accordance with
the claims of justice and humanity than our present highest attainment.
</p>
<p style="padding-left:10em;text-indent:-2em;">Faithfully yours,</p>
<p style="padding-left:13em;text-indent:-2em;">W<sup>m.</sup> Lloyd
Garrison
</p>
</div>
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Garrison, W[illia]m Lloyd, letter, Roxbury, [Mass.], March 5, 1875, to [William] Still.
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William Lloyd Garrison acknowledges the receipt of William Still’s letter requesting a reply by a certain date; reports that there is no possibility of his attending the centennial of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, to which he has been invited, on account of his ill health; offers to send a letter expressing his feelings, which could be read at the event, if it is desired; comments on a federal civil rights bill; and reflects on the poor prospects for equal rights after the end of President Grant’s administration.
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<div><br />
<p style="text-align:center;"><small>[Page: 1]</small></p>
<br />
<div>
<p style="text-align:right;">New York</p>
<p style="text-align:right;">May 10, 1854</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">My Old Friend,</p>
</div>
<div>
<p style="text-indent:4em;">Peter Still, who will hand you this, was born free in New Jersey; kidnapped thence when six years old, with his brother, two years older, and sold into slavery; served forty years in Alabama; finally bought himself free, leaving his wife and four children in the hands of the scoundrels who had robbed him of forty year's work; and he is now begging more to buy them out of bondage. His chivalrous robber <span style="font-style:italic;">[?]</span> asks him $5,000 for his own wife and children. It is robbery to buy it, but inhumane to refuse; and as the time has not yet arrived for facing such villains with ball and steel rather [than] gold, I wish you could help him <span style="font-style:italic;">raise a[?]</span> <span style="font-style:italic;">host[?]</span> of the many among those you know.</p>
<p style="padding-left:10em;text-indent:-2em;">Yours,</p>
<p style="padding-left:13em;text-indent:-2em;">Horace Greeley</p>
</div>
<div>George Dawson, Esq. Albany. Eve. Journal office.</div>
<br />
<p style="text-align:center;"><small>[Page: 2]</small></p>
<br />
<div class="correspondence-action">Horace Greeley<br /> May 10 '54</div>
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Greeley, Horace, letter, Eve. Journal office, New York, May 10, 1854, to George Dawson [?], Esq., Albany, [N.Y.]
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Letter of introduction for Peter Still, written by Horace Greeley, which notes, of the sum required to free Still’s family members, that: “It is robbery to pay it, but inhumanity to refuse.”
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<div>
<div class="letter"><br />
<p style="text-align:center;"><small>[Page: 1]</small></p>
<br /> Copy.
<p style="text-align:right;">Phil<sup>a</sup></p>
<p style="text-align:right;">9<sup>th</sup> month 19<sup><span style="text-decoration:underline;">th</span></sup> 1854.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Respected Friend.</p>
<p style="text-indent:4em;">An extraordinary press of business and sickness in my family has prevented an earlier reply to thy letter of the 9<sup>th</sup> I am rejoiced to learn that Peter has been so successful in making collections. and he may rest assured that I will not divulge the facts. for I am aware that it is all important it should be kept a profound secret. I think that when Peter understands the position in which the affair now is that he will recall his instructions to me to call on Birney & Goodrich. Soon after Peter requested me to act for him I became satisfied after as thorough investigation as the circumstances would admit of that the negotiation for the purchase of his family woud never be carried to a successful termination by correspondence and therefore despatched a gentleman (in whom I have full confidence) to Florence Ala with</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><small>[Page: 2]</small></p>
<p style="text-indent:4em;"><br /> instructions if he could get possession of the wife and children and carry them to Cincinnati. I instructed him to place himself under the advice and direction of John Simpson an old personal friend and wealthy merchant to whom I wrote giving him all the facts and asking his personal interest and attention. Simpson recollected Peter and promised to give all the aid in his power; but he said the owner had been so frequently approached by letter and otherwise that it would be very unwise for my agent to go to him; that his feeling towards Peter was very bitter and that the family could not now be bought on any terms. He said further that if we would place the affair in his hands he would embrace the earliest opportunity of carrying out our views.</p>
<p style="text-indent:4em;">Thou will readily perceive that in this position of affairs it would be very unwise again to call on Birney & Goodrich who are not lawyers but are proprietors of what is known here as a Commercial Agency. The amount named to Simpson as the sum Peter can pay for his family is $3500. and he is authorized to draw on me at sight for that amount wherever he can make the purchase. I think it would be unwise to let Simpson know that. Peter can <span style="text-decoration:line-through;"><span style="font-style:italic;">raise[?]</span></span> command</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><small>[Page: 3]</small></p>
<p style="text-indent:4em;"><br /> a larger sum and I would <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">ardently</span> <sup>earnestly</sup> advise the latter not to move in the matter in any way until he again hears from me.</p>
<p style="padding-left:10em;text-indent:-2em;">Very [Respectfully]</p>
<p style="padding-left:13em;text-indent:-2em;">Morris L Hallowell</p>
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Hallowell, Morris L., copy of a letter, Philadelphia, September 19, 1854, to Cha[rle]s A. Gurley, New London, Conn.
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Morris L. Hallowell acknowledges the receipt of Charles A. Gurley’s letter; expresses delight that Peter Still has had such success in his fundraising efforts (which he will keep secret); states that he sent an agent to Alabama who conferred with John Simpson, but that the agent did not approach the owner of Still’s enslaved family; reports that Simpson has agreed to act as intermediary in the matter, although at the moment the owner will not release the family on any terms (as he “had been so frequently approached” and “his feeling towards Peter was very bitter”); notes that involving the commercial agency of Birney & Goodrich of Philadelphia further would be inappropriate; requests that Still be advised not to take any action on the matter until he (Hallowell) has contacted Still again; and notes that Simpson, unaware that more money has been collected, is only authorized to pay 3,500 dollars for Still’s family.
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