Letter from Samuel May, Boston, to Richard Davis Webb, Nov. 10, '57

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Title:
Letter from Samuel May, Boston, to Richard Davis Webb, Nov. 10, '57
Description:
May tries to make arrangements for the writing of the abolitionist biographies in the Glasgow biographical dictionary. He objects to letting Reverend Andrew Preston Peabody, the editor of "The North American Review," write the biographies, which he feels were tinged with Peabody's conservatism. May says that Francis Bowen, the former editor, would have been much worse. He informs Webb that he has written a biographical sketch of Maria Weston Chapman.
Author:
May, Samuel, Jr., 1810-1899
Addressee:
Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872
Date:
November 10, 1857
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
May, Samuel, Jr., 1810-1899
Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872
Extent:
1 leaf (2 p.) ; 5 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. + 1 envelope
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Place of origin:
Boston
Language:
English
Notes:
Addressed from 21 Cornhill, Boston.
Holograph, signed.
In the opening lines of the letter, May indicates that he is writing from Leicester, [Mass.], but has marked the letter from the Boston address to show "the one where [he] should be addressed."
The accompanying envelope is postmarked from Dublin and addressed to May at 21 Cornhill. May's notes on the envelope read, " Rec'd Nov. 6 / 57. Ans'd [Nov.] 10 / [57]" and "The Glasgow Biog. Dict."
Title supplied by cataloger.
Identifier:
4530001
Call #:
MS B.1.6 v.6, p.64
Barcode:
39999063860967