[Letter to] Dear Mr May
Contributors: May, Samuel, 1810-1899, recipient
Published: 1859
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Abolitionists; National anti-slavery standard; Antislavery movements; Social reformers; History
Other titles: William Lloyd Garrison Correspondence (1823-1879) (Boston Public Library)
Description: Charles Hazeltine writes Samuel May, Jr. with his appreciative thanks for May's gift of Samuel Joseph May's "Recollections of the Antislavery conflict". Hazeltine notes that William Lloyd Garrison had, two years prior, confided his hopes to compose a history of the antislavery conflict "in its religious bearings". Hazeltine encloses a newspaper clipping concerning the antislavery movement for May's consideration.
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Title devised by cataloger.

Manuscript annotated on recto, with "To Samuel May" appearing in pencil on top-left margin of page.

Manuscript includes an affixed clipping from the National Anti-Slavery Standard, itself a letter to the Editor written by a "J. Weiss".