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Letter from Samuel Joseph May, Leicester, [Mass.], to William Lloyd Garrison, July 11. 1868

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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Manuscript recto has two annotations upon header. The first, located upon the top-left reads simply "To W.L.G." The second rests underneath this, above May's salutation to Garrison, and reads "80" in pencil.Samuel Joseph May informs William Lloyd Garrison that he and Mary Anne Estlin are en route to Boston, and that Estlin and Sarah Pugh have been visitors at his household for the past week. May writes that he cannot wait to see Garrison so as to offer his congratulations for Garrison's "high exaltation", and asserts that Garrison has "been lifted above Piux IXth", and humorously bequeaths upon him the title of "grandpapa". May comments on his own grandchildren, and asserts his gladness that the birth of Garrison's own grandchildren has not stirred in Garrison any "painful sense of advanced age". May declares that he himself has never been "more busy, nor more merry" than since he had declared himself to be "supernumerated".
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. Aging
  3. Antislavery Movements
  4. Correspondence
  5. Estlin, Mary Anne 1820 1902
  6. Garrison, Helen Eliza 1811 1876
  7. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  8. History
  9. May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph) 1797 1871
  10. Psychological Aspects
  11. Pugh, Sarah 1800 1884
  12. Slaver
  13. Social Reformers
  14. United States
  15. Women
  16. Women Abolitionists

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