Letter from Parker Pillsbury, Lynn, [Massachusetts], to Samuel May, 1853 July 11th

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Title:
Letter from Parker Pillsbury, Lynn, [Massachusetts], to Samuel May, 1853 July 11th
Description:
Parker Pillsbury writes to Samuel May assuming that May has "heard before now probably from Mr. Dodge, that the meeting at Marblehead failed." Pillsbury remarks, "Isn't Essex County an odd conglomerate? Nature seems to have distilled the virtue & vitality all out of it, in concocting Garrison." He then answers the charge that "our Board [is] not very discreet in the selection of agents" and states that, "There are but few to undertake in any way, an antislavery mission. Those who do, must develop themselves to the Board, and to the people, and then be considered accordingly." Pillsbury also discusses his last meeting in Lynn, where Addison Davis unleashed "his wrath upon me." He then asks May to direct his mail to Jonathan Buffum in Lynn and says he will write to New Ipswich "so as to prevent loss of another holy antislavery Sabbath."
Author:
Pillsbury, Parker, 1809-1898
Addressee:
May, Samuel, Jr., 1810-1899
Date:
July 11, 1853
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--Meetings--United States--History--19th century
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Meetings
Social reformers--United States
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society
May, Samuel, Jr., 1810-1899
Pillsbury, Parker, 1809-1898
Davis, Addison
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 25 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2z110x96n
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
Lynn, [Massachusetts]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Identifier:
5982245
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.22, p.107
Barcode:
39999085847166