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Letter from Eliza Wigham, Edinburgh, [Scotland], to Samuel May, 4.4.56

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Wigham, Eliza

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Addressed from 5 Gray Street, Edinburgh. Addressed to 21 Cornhill, Boston.Holograph, signed.May's note on the envelope reads, "Rec'd April 21 / 56."Title supplied by cataloger.Miss Wigham describes the tactics of Julia Griffiths. She reports that a Christian anti-slavery society is being formed in Edinburgh to oppose the American Anti-Slavery Society. It is composed of United Presbyterians whose mission church at Calabar admitted slaveholders. Miss Wigham speaks further of Miss Griffiths in a note on the inner flap of the envelope.
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