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Letter to] Dear Mr. Webb [manuscript

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Holograph, signedTitle supplied by catalogerMay mentions a visit to England of his friend, the Reverend [Robert] Hassall of Worcester County. May acknowledges receipt of a financial account, which he discusses at length. He mentions Webb's domestic affliction and the appointment of Parker Pillsbury as English agent of the American Anti-Slavery Society. May refers again to the acquittal of Wendell Phillips and Theodore Parker and says that Phillips has had, "within a few weeks, invitations to address literary societies at ten different Colleges and Universities" and that, "previous to last summer, he had never ([May] believe[s] received a single invitation of the kind."
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  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. May, Samuel, 1810 1899
  4. Phillips, Wendell, 1811 1884
  5. Slaver
  6. Webb, Richard Davis, 1805 1872

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