[Letter to] My dear friend May
Contributors: May, Samuel, 1810-1899. recipient
Series: Samuel May Correspondence
Published: 1842
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; History; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists
Description: Collins asks May to act as local agent in Leicester and its neighboring towns.  The third and fourth paragraphs of the letter deal with a communication from Daniel Webster, then Secretary of State, to Edward Everett, ambassador to England at the time, about the slave mutiny aboard the brig, Creole.  Collins strongly disapproves of Webster's attitude.
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Catalog card indicates that this letter was sealed with an anti-slavery seal.

May's handwriting above the mailing address reads, "ans'd March 10."