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Letter to] My Dear Friend [manuscript

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Holograph, signedOn pages 1-2 of this manuscript, there is a letter by William Lloyd Garrison to Samuel Joseph May. Garrison has heard from Sydney Howard Gay that it will not be practicable to hold the annual meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society in New York. The Executive Committee decided unanimously to hold it in Syracuse in May. Wendell Phillips promised to attend. Garrison hopes to see Gerrit Smith there. Garrison sends his sympathies to Samuel Joseph May regarding the destruction of his beautiful meeting houseOn page 3 of this manuscript, there is a separate letter by Samuel May, Jr., to Samuel Joseph May, written on Tuesday, March 23, [1852]. Despite the loss of Samuel Joseph May's church, the Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society hopes that arrangements may be made for the annual meeting in SyracuseMerrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. American Anti Slavery Society
  3. Antislavery Movements
  4. Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805 1879
  5. Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814 1888
  6. May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797 1871
  7. May, Samuel, 1810 1899
  8. Phillips, Wendell, 1811 1884
  9. Slaver
  10. Smith, Gerrit, 1797 1874

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