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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Manuscript is encapsulated.Samuel Joseph May writes William Lloyd Garrison that he has been occupied with tending to a young couple of his society who has just lost their only child, stating that he was left "shuddering at the trials of feeling and facility that await us in this life" while simultaneously noting that he has often witnessed that "the deeply afflicted are the most resigned and confiding in God". May relays to Garrison that the child's sudden death was reminiscent of that of his first child, and recounts his own grief at this loss. May writes that he came to view his suffering as for his own good, as it represented his "heavenly Father's will". May informs Garrison that he had only learned of the death of Garrison's son, Charles Follen Garrison, in the last issue of the Liberator, and offers his profound sympathies to Garrison.

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