Letter from Abby H. Price, [Hopedale, Mass.?], to Samuel May, [July 5 or 6 / 53?]

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Abby H. Price, [Hopedale, Mass.?], to Samuel May, [July 5 or 6 / 53?]
Description:
Mrs. Price speaks of a successful anti-slavery meeting at South Milford. She says that she has lectured on anti-slavery in Reverend [Samuel?] Clarke's meeting-house in [Uxbridge, Massachusetts?]. She tells May that she has heard unfavorable rumors about some unspecified incident at Hopkinton. She tells May that she has suffered a great deal and asks his advice on how to proceed so as not to injure the anti-slavery cause.
Author:
Price, Abby H.
Addressee:
May, Samuel, Jr., 1810-1899
Date:
[July 5, 1853?–July 6, 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
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
May, Samuel, Jr., 1810-1899
Price, Abby H.
Extent:
1 leaf (2 p.) ; 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/dv144g613
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
Hopedale, Mass.?
Language:
English
Notes:
A copy of a later response by May to Mrs. Price appears as a postscript to Price's letter to May. This copy is dated Leicester, July 20 / 1853 and is addressed to Mrs. Price at Hopedale. In this correspondence, May informs Mrs. Price that he shower her letter from "The Practical Christian" to Abby Kelley Foster, who agreed that it would be best for Mrs. Price to cease her lectures.
A note in May's handwriting indicates that this letter was "written July 5 or 6 / 53 - probably."
Holograph, signed.
Immediately beneath Mrs. Price's letter, May's handwriting reads, "Ans'd hurriedly July 7 or 8 - advising her not to lecture as Agt. of Wor[cester] Co. A[nti] S[lavery] S[ociety]."
Title supplied by cataloger.
Identifier:
4531571
Call #:
MS B.1.6 v.5, p.1
Barcode:
39999063859704