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Letter from Oliver Johnson, Clifton Spring, [N.Y.], to Samuel May, Aug. 14, 1887

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Holograph, signed.Title supplied by cataloger.Johnson returns May's letter from Evelyn E. Plummer. He philosophizes on the number of good people in the world and complains that the newspapers give too much space to "crime and wickedness." He encloses a letter from Theodore Dwight Weld, which was apparently almost illegible. Johnson describes Clifton Springs.
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  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Correspondence
  4. History
  5. Johnson, Oliver 1809 1889
  6. Liberty Bell (Boston, Mass)
  7. May, Samuel, Jr. 1810 1899
  8. Slaver
  9. United States

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