Letter from Lydia Maria Child, Wayland, to Samuel May, May 19'th, 1873

Title:: Letter from Lydia Maria Child, Wayland, to Samuel May, May 19'th, 1873
Addressee:: May, Samuel, Jr., 1810-1899
Author:: Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880
Date:: May 19, 1873
Format:: Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:: Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):: Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:: Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
May, Samuel, Jr., 1810-1899
May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871
Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:: 2 leaves (4 p.) ; 4 x 6 1/4 in.
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/wm118h31v
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Place of origin:: Wayland
Language:: English
Notes:: Holograph, signed.
Includes envelope.
Child thanks Samuel May for the biography of Samuel Joseph May. Disapproves of the "prevailing contempt for labor, and the universal greed for sudden wealth." Says her husband was much pleased with the pamphlet about Col. Joseph May.
Identifier:: 2793044
Call #:: MS B.1.6 v.11, p.34
Barcode:: 39999063212813
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