The original is at the Houghton Library of Harvard University. From the Blagden Collection of Wendell Phillips Papers: 10 letters from M. Pinner to Wendell Phillips, 1860-1873, bMS Am 1953 (1006) [item 10].
Transcribed (by Doron Zeilberger) and posted on the web: November 2003.
By kind permission of the Houghton Library of Harvard University.
No 162, Broadway
New York Jan. 19,
1875
Wendell Phillips Esqr
Boston, Mass.
My dear friend. Many, very many hearty thanks for that letter on the mixed school question. I read it in to-day's Herald, and think that it is by far the clearest, ablest and most logical letter you ever wrote, as far as I have read them. I begin to think the old adage a true one that: "Extremes meet", for I see that a temperance man as well as wine improves with age. _ that letter is a splendid one and will do good, thanks! I hope you and Mrs. P. are well, or at least as well as usual, although nowadays I never hear from you. Old age therefore does not seem to improve you in all things. How about the Garrison family and the rest of the Anti-Slavery folks. Do they all still somewhat cling together or do they verify the old German adage: "The child is dead, the relation ceases".
I retain my office 162 Broadway till May next, possibly longer. If I'll move, a notice on the old door will proclaim my new whereabouts. My residence is at Bergen Point, near Elizabeth NJ., a spare room and a warm welcome is always ready for you, and whenever you swing around the circle again do take a peep at our house-life and convince yourself, that wife and two baby-boys are taught to love Wendell Phillips as much
as does Your old friend
M Pinner
Box 2583 New York.