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ThayerDavid18780524_001

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DAVID THAYER, M. D.,
94 Boylston Street,

Boston, May 24 1878

Wm. E. Park Esq

Dear Sir:

Yours of the 22^d^ inst.
was received yesterday & I hasten
to reply. I was a member of the
Latin Department of Phil. Acdm. in
1833--34 & 35. The forty years that
have intervened between that time
& this have doubtless erased from
my memory many facts which
might be interesting to you.

But the rough outline of the
Abolition movement is still clear
to me. In the beginning allow
me to say that Sir Robert Peel
declared that "George Thompson is
the most eloquent man in or out
of Parliament." Geo Thompson came
to Andover & preached the Gospel of

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