By her unwearied attention to my wants, her sympathetic regards, her perfect equanimity of mind, and her sweet and endearing manners; she is no trifling support to Abolitionism, inasmuch as she lightens my labors, and enables me to find exquisite delight in the family circle, as an offset to public adversity." And here is a lovely bit of self-revelation made to her betrothed several months before they were wedded.

"I am aware of the responsibility that will devolve upon me," she writes, "and how much my example will be copied among that class you have so long labored to elevate and enlighten.

I have been considering how the colored people think of dress, and how much of their profits are expended for useless ornaments that foolishly tend to make a show and parade.

As much stress will, of course, be laid on Garrison's _wife_ by that class, it behooves me to be very circumspect in all things, when called upon to fill so important a station." The marriage occurred September 4, 1834, and the next day the pair set up housekeeping in "Freedom's Cottage," on Bower street, Roxbury.

The young housekeepers were rich in every good thing except money; and of that commodity there was precious little that found its way into the family till.