[Letter to] My dear friend
Contributors: May, Samuel, 1810-1899, recipient
Series: Samuel May Correspondence
Published: 1862
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Number of pages: 10
Subjects: Correspondence; History; Antislavery movements; Trent Affair, 1861; Abolitionists
Description: Stating "We are not at all surprised that your [government] is not Anti-Slavery," Wigham recommends that the American people urge the President to issue an emancipation proclamation. She charges the British and American press with provoking hostilities and adds that the stone blockade of Charleston harbor has aroused much indignation in London. Wigham is pleased at the peaceful termination of the Mason and Slidell incident and mentions an article in the Times that attacked the two figures. She states that there was much resentment against Mason and Slidell in England. Wigham thinks that the horrors of Slavery should be brought home to the English press; she tells of an attempt of the Free Church Commission to help the American pro-Slavery churches.
Notes: Holograph, signed.

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Handwritten note on envelope, "Rec'd Feb. 11, 1862. Ans'd [Feb.] 18 [1862] (partially)."