Henry Highland Garnet letter to Theodore Tilton, 1859.

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Henry Highland Garnet letter to Theodore Tilton, 1859.

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Autograph letter, signed, from Henry Highland Garnet to Theo Tilton, dated New York, October 20, 1859. Garnet accepts an offer to lecture on the 30th of November and refers to "an excellent lecture" he had given the previous evening.

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Garnet, Henry Highland, 1815-1882

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Henry Highland Garnet was a prominent African-American clergyman and abolitionist. Theodore Tilton was a poet, abolitionist, and editor of the Congregationalist newspaper the Independent. From the description of Henry Highland Garnet letter to Theodore Tilton, 1859. (New-York Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 709966851 ...

Tilton, Théodore 1835-1907

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Theodore Tilton (1835-1907) was an American newspaper editor, journalist, poet, and supporter of women's suffrage. He and his wife were parishioners of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and Tilton worked as his assistant for eleven years, until 1874, when Tilton sued Beecher for adultery with Mrs. Tilton. The case received widespread public attention. Tilton subsequently moved to Paris where he lived for the rest of his life. From the guide to the Theodore Tilton Correspondence, 1865-1894,...