Letter from Charles Calistus Burleigh, Plainfield, [Connecticut], to Samuel May, 1850 [August] 19th

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Title:
Letter from Charles Calistus Burleigh, Plainfield, [Connecticut], to Samuel May, 1850 [August] 19th
Description:
C.C. Burleigh writes to Samuel May discussing his travel plans for September. Burleigh states that he plans to be "on the Cape [Cape Cod]" for the first weeks of the month, and has been asked by Lewis Ford to attend a meeting at West Duxbury with Nathaniel Whiting. He asks May if he "think[s] it would be as well for me to do so" and proposes leaving the Cape to attend the meeting. Burleigh also tells May that Ford wants May to send a speaker to the quarterly meeting of the Old Colony Anti-Slavery Society, which meets the first Sunday in October at South Scituate. He tells May to write Ford with the answers to these questions and suggests that they hold the West Duxbury meeting on October 15th "since in that case there is a possibility & I think now a probability (though not a certainty) of my being able to attend it; whereas it is certain I cannot on the 8th." Burleigh tells May that he left his bill and the collections that he made at the Anti-Slavery office in Boston. He aks May to write to Stephen S. Foster and determine the name of an individual who donated money and that was left off of the collection list but should be included. Burleigh then asks if "Lucy Stone has yet returned from the West" and states that "we need more laborers in so wide a field as is open to us & many well be called 'white to the harvest.'" He then discusses his upcoming travel plans to Feltonville and Harwich.
Addressee:
May, Samuel, Jr., 1810-1899
Author:
Burleigh, Charles C. (Charles Calistus), 1810-1878
Date:
[August 19, 1850]
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--Lectures and lecturing--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Meetings--United States--History--19th century
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Lectures and lecturing
Meetings
Social reformers--United States
Old Colony Anti-Slavery Society
May, Samuel, Jr., 1810-1899
Ford, Lewis, 1812-
Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893
Burleigh, Charles C. (Charles Calistus), 1810-1878
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 25 cm.
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Place of origin:
Plainfield, [Connecticut]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
On verso, the letter is addressed to "Samuel May Jr. Leicester, Mass." and it is postmarked with a green, circular stamp reading, "Plainfield Ct. Aug 20."
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
5930469
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.19, p.71
Barcode:
39999085842514