[Letter to] My dear sir
Contributors: May, Samuel, 1810-1899, recipient
Series: Samuel May Correspondence
Published: 1880
Place of publication: Brookline, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; History; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists
Description: Whipple thanks May for an anonymous book called "A Fool's Errand." He denies Oliver Johnson's contention that Richard Hildreth's "The White Slave" followed Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin." He discusses Hildreth's "Archy Moore" and says that it is rumored that Judge Tourge e of South Carolina wrote "A Fool's Errand."
Notes: Holograph, signed.

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