Letter from Samuel May, Boston, to Richard Davis Webb, January 25, 1858

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Samuel May, Boston, to Richard Davis Webb, January 25, 1858
Description:
May begins with a discussion of financial transactions. He tells of his effort to collect a debt from Clinton G. Gilroy and of Gilroy's activities in New York. In a continuation of the letter that is dated January 26, May says that William Lloyd Garrison hopes that Webb will pay no attention to Frederick Douglass' attacks. May reports that Sydney Howard Gay has resigned the editorship of the "National Anti-Slavery Standard." He discusses Kansas affairs and says that he will send additional memoirs for the biographical dictionary.
Author:
May, Samuel, Jr., 1810-1899
Addressee:
Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872
Date:
January 25, 1858
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
Gilroy, Clinton G.
May, Samuel, Jr., 1810-1899
Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872
Extent:
2 leaves (8 p.) ; 5 x 8 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/dv144t13h
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
Boston
Language:
English
Notes:
Addressed from 21 Cornhill, Boston.
Holograph, signed.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Identifier:
4531876
Call #:
MS B.1.6 v.6, p.79
Barcode:
39999063860827