Visit to Mother in Baltimore
July 7, 1823
Garrison visits his Mother, in Baltimore, seeing her for the first time in seven years. A letter to a friend describes her condition. “… so emaciated, that I should never have recognized her … bolstered up in bed, being incompetent to lie down….” Then he comments on the operation she is to undergo… “and from the known skill of the physician in surgery, it is believed it will result happily.” 1