[Letter to] Dear Webb
Contributors: Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872, recipient
Series: Samuel May Correspondence
Published: 1860
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; History; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists
Description: May acknowledges money Webb sent to him and provides a detailed account of its disbursement.  He informs Webb that he sent him copies of James Redpath's "The Public Life of Capt. John Brown," "Peter Still," and a work by Caroline Dall. and inquires about the payment to Harriet Martineau.  May speaks of the tremendous impact of the John Brown "raid," an event that he says "is taking up this nation by the four corners, and shaking it to its very centre." May mentions that William Lloyd Garrison is undecided about a trip to England, but perhaps his plans will change .
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Addressed from 21 Cornhill, Boston.