Skip to main content

Cook, John L., 1783-1836

 Person

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Thomas Ritchie letter to Joseph R. Williams

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: X032762752]
Identifier: MSS 16899
Content Description This collection contains a printed circular letter and a handwritten letter sent by Thomas Ritchie (1778-1854), the editor of the Richmond Enquirer, to Joseph R. Williams, Esquire. The printed circular letter, dated July 29, 1835, was sent by Ritchie and John L. Cook, publishers of the Richmond Enquirer newspaper, and was a printed questionnaire that discussed the “movements of certain Fanatics [abolitionists] in the North.” Founded in 1833, the American Anti-Slavery Society...
Dates: July 20, 1835