Letter from Samuel May, Jr., Leicester [Mass.], to Robert Folger Wallcut, April 12 [1865]

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Samuel May, Jr., Leicester [Mass.], to Robert Folger Wallcut, April 12 [1865]
Description:
Samuel May Jr. asks Robert Folger Wallcut to send a list of people an extract of the article that May wrote for the week’s Liberator. The letter ends with May relating Oliver Johnson’s account of William Lloyd Garrison setting off to Charleston on Arago [to attend the flag-raising ceremony at Fort Sumter]. George, Garrison’s son [who are serving just outside Charleston] will be furloughed to see his father.
Author:
May, Samuel, Jr., 1810-1899
Addressee:
Wallcut, Robert Folger, 1797-1884
Date:
[April 12, 1865]
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
Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.)--Siege, 1861
Antislavery movements--United States
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
May, Samuel, Jr., 1810-1899
Wallcut, Robert Folger, 1797-1884
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Places:
South Carolina > Charleston (county) > Charleston
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 14 x 22 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/6w925n55k
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
Leicester [Mass.]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
4510431
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.34, p.41A
Barcode:
39999089661886