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
