[Letter to] My Dear Friend
Contributors: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, recipient
Series: Maria Weston Chapman Correspondence (1835-1885)
Published: 1843
Place of publication: Lexington, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

When Samuel Joseph May accepted a lecture assignment, he hoped to find a suitable speech among his manuscripts and papers. Not having found something and having read very little of late "of the doings of the Colonization Society," he suggests that his friend Oliver Stearns or Adin Ballou would "more than supply" his place.