[Letter to] My dear friend
Contributors: May, Samuel, 1810-1899, recipient
Series: Samuel May Correspondence
Published: 1863
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; History; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists
Description: Miss Wigham wants to know why Tennessee should be re-admitted to the Union without the emancipation of its slaves. She sends the text of a speech of the Duke of Argyle and refers May to a speech by Earl Russell. Miss Wigham asks for photographs of William Lloyd Garrison.
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Addressed from 5 Gray Street, Edinburgh to 221 Washington Street, Boston.

Envelope includes original postage stamp.

May's writing on the envelope reads, "Rec'd April 28 / 63."

In notes on the inner flap of the envelope, Miss WIgham asks May to remember her to various American friends and to forward a letter to Mrs. Child.