Colored Community Support, Boston
April 4, 1833
Garrison writes to members of a Committee of Boston’s colored community, thanking them for a silver cup presented to him at the home of George Putnam. It was presented on the occasion of a farewell interview, as Garrison prepared for his first trip to England. “I thank you for this liberal expression of your sentiments. It was not needed to convince me of your friendship for my person … Gratitude shall engrave your names upon the tablet of my memory, more deeply than they are engraved upon this cup. … I will endeavor to be more worthy of your regard. 1