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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.On verso, the letter is addressed to "Samuel May Jr. Leicester, Mass." and it is postmarked with a green, circular stamp reading, "Plainfield Ct. Aug 20."C.C. Burleigh writes to Samuel May discussing his travel plans for September. Burleigh states that he plans to be "on the Cape [Cape Cod]" for the first weeks of the month, and has been asked by Lewis Ford to attend a meeting at West Duxbury with Nathaniel Whiting. He asks May if he "think[s] it would be as well for me to do so" and proposes leaving the Cape to attend the meeting. Burleigh also tells May that Ford wants May to send a speaker to the quarterly meeting of the Old Colony Anti-Slavery Society, which meets the first Sunday in October at South Scituate. He tells May to write Ford with the answers to these questions and suggests that they hold the West Duxbury meeting on October 15th "since in that case there is a possibility & I think now a probability (though not a certainty) of my being able to attend it; whereas it is certain I cannot on the 8th." Burleigh tells May that he left his bill and the collections that he made at the Anti-Slavery office in Boston. He aks May to write to Stephen S. Foster and determine the name of an individual who donated money and that was left off of the collection list but should be included. Burleigh then asks if "Lucy Stone...

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