[Letter to] My dear friend
Contributors: May, Samuel, 1810-1899, recipient
Series: Samuel May Correspondence
Published: 1861
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; History; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists
Description: WIgham thanks May for a shipment of books and sends her regrets for his poor health. She warns against a compromise with slaveholding, stating that the North is not adhering to true abolition principles and neither is General Benjamin F. Butler when he declares slaves are contrabands of war.
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Title supplied by cataloger.

May's writing on the envelope reads, "Rec'd July 13, 1861."

Envelope addressed to 221 Washington Street, Boston.