Letter from Wendell Phillips, [Boston, Massachusetts], to Samuel May, [1852] June 15th

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Title:
Letter from Wendell Phillips, [Boston, Massachusetts], to Samuel May, [1852] June 15th
Description:
Wendell Phillips writes to Samuel May "partly for the pleasure of writing you - partly to anger myself this hot day by keeping my mind this hot day on your cool self perched up on that airy hill of yours ventilating on the piazza." Phillips then says he "cannot come the 20th" as his wife, Ann, is preparing "to launch into the water cure." He tells May that if Ann does not go until July, he "shall be at Abington," and May should check in the Liberator for "this all important (!) fact." He then discusses news in Boston and the antislavery office, reporting that "Nothing new has come to light since you left." He adds that "Foote's trying to get up a Sunday eve[nin]g meeting at Melodeon," before discussing a drawer they share in the office. Phillips asks May to move around some of his things in the drawer promising, "But I would do nothing till I saw you." He tells May, "We miss you. I can't truthfully say we've needed your actual presence, so enjoy yourself ..."
Author:
Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884
Addressee:
May, Samuel, Jr., 1810-1899
Date:
[June 15, 1852]
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
Phillips, Ann Terry Greene, 1813-1886
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 19 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2z110t252
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Place of origin:
[Boston, Massachusetts]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Legacy catalog card identifies the place of publication of this manuscript as "Boston [?]"
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
5977030
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.21, p.40
Barcode:
39999085844122