[Letter to] Dear Fanny [manuscript]

Holograph, signed "Your ever loving Father." William Lloyd Garrison thinks that Fanny Garrison Villard and her family should wait until May before crossing the Atlantic. A stormy passage may be hard on the children. William L. Garrison considers it risky to bring with her an inexperienced German servant girl who doesn't speak English. He cautions Fanny G. Villard against "buying dutiable articles for presentation to relatives or friends." William L. Garrison writes: "I went, a few days ago, to sit for my photograph, where spirit impressions appear upon the negative, in addition to the face of the sitter. On the glass with mine appeared the likeness of Charles Sumner bending over me, with broken shackles resting upon my right arm! It excites a good deal of curiosity and wonder." Agnes Garrison has chicken pox. Mrs. Helen Eliza Garrison is suffering from severe chest and back pains