Letter from Samuel Joseph May, South Scituate, [Mass], to William Lloyd Garrison, Nov[ember] 7. 1841
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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Section of first page of manuscript has been eroded from the manuscript.Manuscript addressed to "Mr Wm Lloyd Garrison 25 Cornhill Boston."Samuel Joseph May writes William Lloyd Garrison stating that he is in need of the manuscript for his address delivered on July 4, 1840 at Debinton, and requests that Garrison forward this to him immediately. May states that the meeting in Hingham went well, and that he longs to have Garrison, Douglass, and Collins speak in Scituate. May states that it is a pity that Garrison did not give to him the parcel from Mrs. Chapman, stating that it contained items which she had wished May to distribute at the meeting.
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- Abolitionists
- African American Abolitionists
- African Americans
- Antislavery Movements
- Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
- Collins, John A. (John Anderson) 1810 1879
- Correspondence
- Douglass, Frederick 1818 1895
- Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
- History
- May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph) 1797 1871
- Meetings
- Slaver
- Social Reformers
- United States
- Women
- Women Abolitionists