Letter from Samuel May, Jr., 21 Cornhill, [Boston], to Samuel Joseph May, March 17 / [18]55

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Title:
Letter from Samuel May, Jr., 21 Cornhill, [Boston], to Samuel Joseph May, March 17 / [18]55
Description:
Writing to Samuel J. May (Recipient), Samuel May Jr. (Writer) gives a list of the publications he is sending to Recipient (100 copies of [John G. Palfrey’s tract on the inter-state slave trade] and a volume of Tribute to the Negro by Wilson Armistead, among others). After talking about meeting Recipient’s brother and his wife in Lynn, Writer discusses some documents Recipient’s request. He says that Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd Garrison found nothing of the nature Recipient wished, and that he will endeavor to send a copy of a law being drafted for a legislature that is “of a kind similar to the one prepared for [Recipient’s] assembly.”
Author:
May, Samuel, Jr., 1810-1899
Addressee:
May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871
Date:
[March 17, 1855]
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
May, Samuel, Jr., 1810-1899
May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 24 x 29 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/6w925j150
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
21 Cornhill, [Boston]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
4494438
Call #:
MS A.6.1 p.59
Barcode:
39999089663353