Letter from Wendell Phillips to Samuel May, [1851 May 3]

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Title:
Letter from Wendell Phillips to Samuel May, [1851 May 3]
Description:
Wendell Phillips writes to Samuel May congratulating May and "Mrs. May on the welcome addition to your cares & comforts." Phillips tells May "that you only added to the members of your brothers, when you lost so many outside friends by casting in your lot with 'the cause.'" He expects that May will not accompany him and Edmund Quincy to New York and discusses Robert Folger Wallcut's decision to purchase life insurance. Phillips says he told Wallcut that "like all the Folgers & Wallcuts he would live till 92 - & no insurance office could be expected to survive so long as that." He also tells May about Board meetings and shares a story about a fugitive slave who attended one meeting and tried to leave with Edmund Quincy's glasses. When asked to return them he "remarked that he though 'paying for labor or articles was merely a Massachusetts prejudice!' & he had fully overcome it! The Board immediately elected him an honorary member ..." Phillips then says he has received James Russell Lowell's resignation of the editorship of the National Anti-Slavery Standard and he asks May if he should accept it "or urge him to continue?"
Author:
Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884
Addressee:
May, Samuel, Jr., 1810-1899
Date:
[May 3, 1851]
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
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Social reformers--United States
May, Samuel, Jr., 1810-1899
Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884
Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891
Quincy, Edmund, 1808-1877
Wallcut, Robert Folger, 1797-1884
National anti-slavery standard
Extent:
1 leaf (3 p.) ; 25 cm.
Permalink:
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Place of origin:
[Place of publication not identified]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Legacy catalog card identifies the place of publication of this manuscript as "Boston [?]"
Title devised by cataloger.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
5950078
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.20, p.33
Barcode:
39999085842696