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Letter from Samuel May, Boston, to John Bishop Estlin, July 1, 1847

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Addressed to 47 Park Street, Bristol.Holograph, signed.Title supplied by cataloger.May exhorts Estlin to stand firm for abolition. He says he has written a long letter about Francis Parkman to George Armstrong. May informs Estlin that Frederick Douglass was persuaded not to start publishing a paper in Massachusetts. May says that Douglass has had a bad case of scarlet fever and that he plans to go to western New York and Ohio.
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  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Correspondence
  4. Douglass, Frederick 1818 1895
  5. Estlin, J. B. (John Bishop) 1785 1855
  6. History
  7. May, Samuel, Jr. 1810 1899
  8. Slaver
  9. United States

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