Letter from Samuel May, Boston, to Richard Davis Webb, Feb. 14, 1865

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Samuel May, Boston, to Richard Davis Webb, Feb. 14, 1865
Description:
May informs Webb that he is sending a shipment of books. May describes the Anti-Slavery Subscription Anniversary and the annual meeting, which was "the least pleasant A. S. meeting [he] ever attended." He mentions the passage by Congress of the Thirteenth Amendment and says that the Freedmen's Aid and Relief Societies "are becoming a power in the land."
Author:
May, Samuel, Jr., 1810-1899
Addressee:
Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872
Date:
February 14, 1865
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
United States. 13th Amendment
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
Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 5 x 8 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/dv1451791
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
Boston
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Identifier:
4531819
Call #:
MS B.1.6 v.10, p.14
Barcode:
39999063862013