[Letter to] My dear cousin and friend
Contributors: May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871 recipient
Published: 1834
Place of publication: Cambridge
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. (Writer) asks Samuel J. May (Recipient) to write more often. He expresses an approval of the Unionist (publication), and goes on speculating why God allowed slavery (saying that god perhaps decided  ́to disclose his character to men gradually ́). The letter ends with a report of Writer?s activities since he last wrote to the recipient.
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Title devised by cataloger.

On verso, the delivery address is "Rev. Samuel J. May, Brooklyn. (Conn:)." It is postmarked Cambridge, Jan. 20.