[Letter to] Dear Mr. Higginson
Contributors: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 recipient
Published: 1858
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; History; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists
Other titles: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) Samuel May Correspondence. 
Description: Samuel May Jr. writes to Thomas Wentworth Higginson on the eve of Higginson?s court hearing for the charges related to the attack on the courthouse where Anthony Burns was detained. John L. Swift allegedly testified that Higginson had been deceived by Wendell Phillips, Theodore Parker and others to aid the attack. Saying that similar rumors are circulating around the town, May asks Higginson to correct this at the hearing to save the people in question from injustice.
Notes: Holograph, signed.

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