[Letter to] Dear sir
Contributors: May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871, recipient; May, Samuel, 1810-1899, recipient
Series: Samuel May Correspondence
Published: 1869
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; History; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists
Description: Gannett replies to Samuel Joseph May's assertion that the remark about the abolitionists attributed to him by May in his "Recollections of the Anti-Slavery Conflict" was in fact made at a meeting of ministers in Boston. Gannett reiterates his views about the Fugitive Slave Law and complains that the abolitionists charged him and others with unworthy motives.

Samuel Joseph May writes a letter to his cousin, Samuel May, on the reverse of Gannett's letter. Samuel Joseph May's letter is dated December 1, 1869 from Syracuse.
Notes: Holograph, signed.

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