[Letter to] Dear friend
Contributors: May, Samuel, 1810-1899, recipient; Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884, signatory; Johnson, Oliver, 1809-1889, signatory
Series: Samuel May Correspondence
Published: 1839
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; History; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists
Description: An urgent invitation requesting May's presence at the New England Anti-Slavery Convention on May 28, 1839 in the Marlboro' Chapel reads, "There has not been, since the note of emancipation was first sounded, so much need of wisdom, prudence and brotherly love, in our deliberations as at the present time."
Notes: Holograph, signed.

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Letter is signed "Respectfully yours for the oppressed" by the "Committee of Arrangements," comprised of Wendell Phillips, Oliver Johnson, and John Anderson Collins.