Letter from Edmund Quincy, Dedham, [Massachusetts], to Samuel May, 1846 Feb[ruary] 25

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Title:
Letter from Edmund Quincy, Dedham, [Massachusetts], to Samuel May, 1846 Feb[ruary] 25
Description:
Edmund Quincy writes to Samuel May acknowleding receiving his letter which included an enclosed letter from Richard Davis Webb to Quincy. He tells May that he is leaving for Worcester on Tuesday, but since he cannot be away from home for more than two nights, he will not be able to lecture in Leciester. Quincy says that Webb's letter "contains no particular news" and that Webb "seems to be in his usual excellent frame of mind." Webb also said the Frederick Douglass "is doing very well with his book" in Ireland. In the postscript, Quincy discusses Thomas Treadwell Stone and the possibility of him working as an agent during the "Spring Campaign." He also mentions that Treadwell asked about an agent position for a friend of his and that John Weiss was also asked "to take an agency at the same time." He stresses that agents are a "necessity," saying "the harvest is great, but the labourers are few." Quincy also says that a man named "Bowker, of Hopkinton" told him about "a young man there, whose name I have forgotten, who was an excellent speaker & one whom he thought would make a good agent." Quincy asks May to speak to Bowker about this man and bring him to the Worcester meeting. Again he tells May, "there is nothing we want so much as a fresh crop of agents, to make good the places which New Organization & no organization have left empty."
Author:
Quincy, Edmund, 1808-1877
Addressee:
May, Samuel, Jr., 1810-1899
Date:
February 25, 1846
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Societies, etc--United States--History--19th century
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Societies
Social reformers--United States
May, Samuel, Jr., 1810-1899
Quincy, Edmund, 1808-1877
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Stone, Thomas T. (Thomas Treadwell), 1801-1895
Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872
Weiss, John, 1818-1879
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 23 cm.
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Place of origin:
Dedham, [Massachusetts]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Identifier:
5905984
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.16, p.18
Barcode:
39999066766294