[295] J. B. Grinnell, Men and Events of Forty Years, p. 87.

[296] Letter of Professor L. F. Parker, Grinnell, Iowa, Sept. 30, 1894.

[297] Conversation with Professor Henry H. Barber, of Meadville, Pa., in Cambridge, Mass., June, 1897.

[298] Theodore Parker's Scrap-book, Boston Public Library.

[299] This view agrees with the testimony gathered by correspondence from surviving abolitionists.

[300] This statement is based on a mass of correspondence.

[301] Professor A. C. Thomas on "The Society of Friends," in American Church History, Vol. XII, 1894, pp. 284, 285.

[302] Oliver Johnson, William Lloyd Garrison and His Times, 1879, p. 322.

[303] Professor A. C. Thomas, in American Church History, Vol. XII, p. 285.

[304] Life of Garrison, by his children, Vol. I, p. 455.