Typed transcript. See Call No. Ms.A.9.2 v.28, p.35 for the original letter by Wendell Phillips.

Wendell Phillips wrote: "I want your advice. When W.L.G. [William Lloyd Garrison] wrote his good letter to Howe and his Comm[ittee] though I rejoiced that he did it, yet the reasoning did not so fully convince me as to make me follow his example. I could not quite see & feel his argument. I have just read Howe's insolent letter in the Lib[erator] & it is borne in upon me to write to Stone thus. ..."

Also includes a librarian's note regarding the date of the original manuscript: Garrison wrote to Samuel G. Howe on Nov. 12, 1855 to decline the invitation to speak because Howe had also invited pro-slavery speakers. Howe's reply was probably printed in the Liberator at the end of November or early December at the latest.