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Letter from Samuel May, Leicester, [Mass.], to Charles Calistus Burleigh, April 14, '61

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Holograph, signed.Title supplied by cataloger.May tells Burleigh that "the news of the disastrous result at Ft. Sumter quite unfits me for writing." May acknowledges receipt of the annual report manuscript for the American Anti-Slavery Society and gives instructions concerning the report. He discusses the merits of the different anti-slavery papers as source material.
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  1. Abolitionists
  2. American Anti Slavery Society
  3. Antislavery Movements
  4. Burleigh, Charles C. (Charles Calistus) 1810 1878
  5. Correspondence
  6. Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.)
  7. History
  8. May, Samuel, Jr. 1810 1899
  9. Siege, 1861
  10. Slaver
  11. United States

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