We have not secured your tribute to W. L. Garrison, of which you wrote

Coneygar, Villa,

Bridport.

July 24^th. 1879.

My dear Mr. Douglas

When your letter arrived, we were from home, visiting friends in and near Manchester—it was of course forwarded to me, and I need not say was warmly welcomed. The "Resolutions" giving your reasons for disapproving the "Exodus" of the Colored people are very strong—indeed they seem to me to be unanswerable. You have indeed a large family about you & must feel quite patriarchal—I wish it was not the consequence of so many troubles that filled your house—But it must be a very great happiness to you to be able to brighten the lives of so many who are dear to you.

Our nephew William Lant CarpenterCarpenter, William Lant

is expected home very shortly he has very much enjoyed his tour in your country, & I hope will return much better in health that when he left home. We hope that he will come & stay a few days with us as soon as he can spare the time.

Our first visitor however will be an American gentleman—Mr Charles WareWare, Charles

–a son of the late Dr Henry WareWare, Henry, Jr.

–he is travelling for his health, and is taking us on his way to the Cathedrals of the West of England (Exeter, Wells & Bristol) he is coming tomorrow Evg or Saturday morg—his sisters staid with us three or four years ago, when they were on their travels in Europe.

You ask me to describe Coneygar Villa

I will enclose a little photograph of the two houses of w^ch ours is the one to the North. Most of our windows face the East—the bow-window over I in the drawing room, & the two windows over that are two spare bed-rooms. Over II is the dining room & over that our bed room—& the servants over again;—a breakfast room, & dressing room, & small spare bedroom face the North.—Before we got into the house, we thought our Neighbours had the best of it with their South aspect but I think we like our own best now. There is a small but pretty garden on the North & East of the house, with sloping turf fringed with a hedge of laurels laurustinus & holly which separate us from the steep little bit of private road which branches off from the turnpike road to the Coneygar houses.–On

the small lawn in front of the house is a fine young Cedar (the deodara) also lilac & laburnum (on the North hedge & silver birch—small oak, & two or three other trees elm & lime & a yew.—a small useful garden within the same enclosure supplies us with peas, beans, asparagus, cabbages–& the common fruits no wall fruit—a few pear & apple trees that give but small promise of fruit. The season has been disastrous for gardens such constant rain & so very little sunshine—Yesterday & today have been fine, real summer, at which we are surprised & much pleased—I hope it may last—there must have been a great deal of hay lost & spoiled by the rains & floods over the country—& a month's hot weather just now w^d I also think, be most valuable for the corn harvest.

Mr. CarpenterCarpenter, Russell Lant

The Reverend Russell Lant Carpenter (1816-92), a Unitarian minister, spent his childhood in Bristol, England. He attended Bristol College in preparation for a life of ministry, continued his studies at Manchester and York Colleges and was one of the first to graduate from London University in 1840. Carpenter became intensely involved in the temperance movement and subsequently quit his pastorate at Bridgwater, England, since part of the church's endowment came from taverns selling liquors. In August 18-19 he journeyed to the United States, where he spent a full year preaching from Montreal to St. Louis to Boston. His father, Dr. Lant Carpenter, was a well-known teacher whose Unitarian writings were already known to the antislavery men of the day. Thus, Carpenter became acquainted with Garrison, Douglass, and others. Having returned to England, he married in 1853 and continued his ministerial work there until his death. His works include Memoirs of Lant Carpenter (1842), Discourses and Devotional Services (1849), A Monotessaron (1851), and a biography about his brother, Philip, Memoirs of the Life and Work of Philip Pearsall Carpenter (1880). Carpenter also contributed frequently to the Inquirer and to other periodicals. London Inquirer, 30 January 1892. has completed his

memoir of his brother PhilipCarpenter, Philip Pearsall

Philip Carpenter (1819-77) and Mary Carpenter (1807-77), the children of British reformer and Unitarian minister Lant Carpenter, were both social justice activists. The youngest in the family, Philip trained at the University of Edinburgh and the University of London. Ordained as a Unitarian minister, he served congregations near Manchester and later Warrington. Also an avid naturalist, Philip Carpenter collected specimens and made a catalog of marine shells for the British Museum. In 1865 he moved to Montreal, Canada, where he pursued his scientific study of conchology, gaining respect for his knowledge and publications in the field. His eldest sister, Mary Carpenter, began operating a girls' school in Bristol in 1829 with the help of her mother, Anna Penn Carpenter. Finding the care of poor children her life's calling, in 1835 Mary formed the Working and Visiting Society and in 1852 opened her own reformatory for boys. In the 1850s and 1860s she lobbied for industrial schooling in Britain and opened two schools of her own. In her later years she traveled widely and lectured in Britain and India on education and penal reform. Jo Manton, Mary Carpenter and the Children of the Streets (London, 1976), 18-30; Jennifer S. Uglow, ed., The International Dictionary of Womens Biography (New York, 1982), 94; ACAB, 1:531-32; DNB, 3:1068-70, 1071-72; DAB, 1:561. , but has not you completed arrangements with publisher & printer. he hopes to get the book out before Winter. After finishing the writing & before printing, he felt at leisure for a few week's change, & we have been away for about five weeks–first with friends for ten days, then a fortnight at the Lakes Windermere Ulswater & Keowilli Derwentwater then a week at Ilkley in Yorkshire where my sister Anna (Mrs King) is staying with two of her children, & lastly a few days in London with Dr & Mrs Carpenter.–We passed thro' St. Neots on our way to London, & thought of Mrs CroftsCrofts, Julia Griffiths

A native of London, Julia Griffiths (1811–95) was the oldest of seven children born to Thomas Griffiths, a onetime stationer turned publisher and bookseller, and his wife Charlotte Powis. She first met Douglass during the latter half of 1846 when he lectured in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where she was visiting with friends. Her mother had been a friend of William Wilberforce, who had advocated for the abolition of slavery in England, and she herself was active in the British antislavery movement. Charmed by the American, Griffiths followed Douglass back to the United States with her younger sister, Eliza, in 1848. In 1850, Eliza married John Dick, one of Douglass’s printers for the North Star, and the couple moved to Toronto. Julia became a constant companion and partner to Douglass and a leading antislavery organizer in Rochester for the next five years. She contributed to the North Star as copy editor and journalist, and saved the paper from financial ruin by organizing its books and by aggressively pursuing subscribers and donations. She helped found the Western New York Anti-Slavery Society, acting as its secretary, and organized the Rochester Anti-Slavery Fair. Initially, she lived with the Douglass family, which led to tension in the household and to unsubstantiated rumors that Douglass and Griffiths shared more than a business relationship. In 1853, the vicious attacks upon her in abolitionist newspapers drove her from the Douglass home and finally forced her to return to England in 1855, ostensibly to raise funds for the North Star. In 1859 she married a Methodist minister from Halifax, Henry O. Crofts (1814–80), who acted as an agent for Frederick Douglass’ Paper. Through the Civil War, she continued to organize and revitalize ladies’ antislavery societies and to lecture against slavery. After the war and her husband’s death, she ran a boarding school and worked as a governess. Her friendship with Douglass continued in frequent correspondence, and she welcomed him and his second wife, Helen Pitts Douglass, when they visited England in 1886. British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Reporter, new ser., 5:82 (1 April 1857); 1871 England Census, Durham County, Gateshead, 41; London, England: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538–1812, Ancestry.com; Maria Diedrich, Love Across Color Lines: Ottilie Assing and Frederick Douglass (New York, 1999), 179–84; Waldo E. Martin, Jr., The Mind of Frederick Douglass (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1984), 40–41; Janet Douglas, “A Cherished Friendship: Julia Griffiths Crofts and Frederick Douglass,” Slavery and Abolition, 33:265–74 (June 2012); Erwin Palmer, “A Partnership in the Abolition Movement,” University of Rochester Library Bulletin, 26:1–17 (Autumn/Winter 1970–71). . I expect that she is away for her holiday at this time, or we should have tried to see her for am hour or two between trains. It looked very flat country.

I have not heard from Miss Amé-DrazAmé-Draz, Rosine

A Swiss national, Rosine Amé-Draz (c. 1816–?) first arrived in England on 11 July 1838, listing her profession as teacher. In 1841 she was teaching and living in the parish of Egg Buckland, Devonshire. After spending an undetermined length of time back in Switzerland, she returned to England in July 1848, this time listing her profession as governess. According to the 1861 English Census (where she was recorded as “Rosine Ann Davy,” a native of Neufchatel, Switzerland), she was staying in the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Read of Ecclesfield, Yorkshire. By 1871 she was serving as governess to the children of George S. Kemp, a wealthy Lancashire manufacturer. 1841 England Census, Devonshire, Egg Buckland, 11; 1861 England Census, Yorkshire, Ecclesfield, 56; 1871 England Census, Lancashire, Castleton, 1; “England, Alien Arrivals, 1810–1811, 1826–1869,” Ancestry.com. since she left Bridport 3 months ago—she has been suffering from inflammation in her eyes, which has no doubt prevented her writing. She has a good deal to depress her, in her poor health, & of course, the fact of having no home of her own, & no claim on anyone, as it were, is very trying. If you were inclined to send her a few lines at any time she would value them very much I am sure I shall send your letter to her to read (& return) as I think she will be gratified at your enquiring for her.

It is a long time to look forward to a visit from you—1881—! but you seem to think that is the earliest time there is any chance of your coming over—if we live till then I hope you will come & establish yourself in Coneygar Villa as yr. headquarters & come & go as you like to other friends.

Mr. Carpenter joins me in kindest remembrances–

Ever sincerely yr. friend

Mary CarpenterCarpenter, Mary Browne

Mary Browne Carpenter (c. 1824–98) was the wife of the prominent Unitarian minister Russell Lant Carpenter (1819–92). They were married in Bridgwater, Somersetshire, in 1853. She was one of four daughters born to William Browne, a wealthy Unitarian merchant, and his wife, Mary. William Browne served as mayor of Bridgwater in 1854. In addition to her support of the antislavery effort, Mary Browne Carpenter was also deeply involved in the woman suffrage movement, belonging to one of the more radical suffrage societies in Bridport. She also supported the animal rights and temperance movements. 1841 England Census, Gloucestershire, Bristol, 22; “England and Wales, Christening Records, 1530–1906,” FamilySearch.org; “England and Wales, Death Index, 1837–1915,” FamilySearch.org; “England and Wales, Marriage Index, 1837–1915,” FamilySearch. org; “England and Wales, Non-Conformist Records Indexes, 1588–1977,” FamilySearch.org; Elizabeth Crawford, The Women’s Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland: A Regional Survey (New York, 2006), 161, 169.She has not been identified by name. .