Friday, May 11, 2018

Samuel Gridley Howe to Theodore Parker, Friday, June 1854 – 9 p.m.

Friday, 9 P. M., June, 1854.

Dear Parker:   I must go, or choke in this disgraced and degraded community. I am sick at heart and sick in body. — But one thing I want done. Draw up a brief, terse, strong address to E. G. Loring, stating that the community has lost confidence in him, — that we cannot trust our orphans to the charge of such a man. Put it round at once for signatures. If done now it will receive the signatures of a great majority of the people.

I go to Newport and hope to get strength and heart enough to come back and work again.

Chev.

SOURCE: Laura E. Richards, Editor, Letters and Journals of Samuel Gridley Howe, Volume 2, p. 269

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