[Letter to] My dear sir
Contributors: May, Samuel, 1810-1899, recipient
Series: Samuel May Correspondence
Published: 1837
Place of publication: [Worcester, Mass.?]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; History; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists
Description: Hill sends a message to Reverend Seth Alden by way of May that ill health prevents his attendance at the October 30th meeting at Leicester to confer on the propriety of calling a convention on slavery. Hill adds that he doubts the effectiveness of conventions and public declarations by ministers and that he thinks abolitionist movements retard emancipation. He believes that ministers should work individually against slavery.
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Postmarked side of the letter includes drafted notes that appear to be in the hand of Samuel May, Jr.