[Letter to] Dear friend Webb
Contributors: Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872 recipient
Series: Samuel May Correspondence
Published: 1861
Place of publication: Leicester, Mass
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; History; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists
Description: May tells Webb that he went to New York to bid goodbye to his son, Edward, who set sail on the U.S.S. Unadilla. He acknowledges receipt of Webb's book "The Life and Letters of Captain John Brown." May discusses England's attitude toward the South. He disapproves of the pro-slavery leanings of the English cotton mill owners and the English newspapers.
Notes: Holograph.

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