Letter from Samuel Joseph May, Syracuse, [N.Y.], to William Lloyd Garrison, May 23. 1865

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Title:
Letter from Samuel Joseph May, Syracuse, [N.Y.], to William Lloyd Garrison, May 23. 1865
Description:
Samuel Joseph May writes his thanks and appreciation for Garrison's last letter, offering his assuredness that his "bereavement" [upon the death of his beloved wife, Lucretia Flagge Coffin May] would draw Garrison's "expressions of sympathy". May asserts that his wife "respected & loved" William Lloyd and Helen Garrison, and that their visit to the Mays' the previous Autumn had been a "great delight" to her. May exhults the character of his wife, who had suffered as an invalid for the "last thirteen years", and remarks that following forty years of loving marriage he "shall not soon, if ever, feel at home in this world without her". May asserts his rejoicing that his wife has "got beyond the dark valley", and explains that he would not bring her back were it possible, offering his preference to "go to her" rather "than have her come to me". May announces his hopes to be in Boston the following week, asserting that as he was in attendance at the first New England Anti Slavery Convention, he hopes to be present at what he presumes will be the last. May ends in commenting that they have "a great, an arduous work to do" in elevating and enfranchising the freedmen, and in aiding the "depressed and corrupted" Southern whites.
Author:
May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
May 23, 1865
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Antislavery movements--Congresses--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Freedmen--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Congresses and conventions
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Social reformers--United States
Bereavement--Religious aspects
Freed persons--United States
May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871
Garrison, Helen Eliza, 1811-1876
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 25.3 x 20.3 cm.
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Place of origin:
Syracuse, [N.Y.]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Annotation upon header of recto of manuscript reads "To W.L.G.".
Identifier:
4699022
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.34, p.54B
Barcode:
39999066758820