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Letter to] My Dear Friend [manuscript

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Holograph, signedTitle devised by catalogerSamuel Joseph May informs William Lloyd Garrison that his absence from the Albany Convention was "deeply regretted by all" and a "sore disappointment" to those who had yet to see Garrison speak, but states that nonetheless the affair went well, with respectable attendance. May notifies Garrison that he may expect a full report of the proceedings to be published in the following week's Anti-Slavery Standard. May states that the resolutions were undertaken in an attempt to "set before the minds of the people the present political and relgious aspects of our nation, as they appear to us at this time", and recounts that the resolutions were enunicated by speakers including Wendell Phillips, Charles Lenox Remond, Aaron Macy Powell, and Susan B. Anthony. May informs Garrison that they opened the discussion at the convention to any who "dissented in any respect or measure from our doctrines, or methods" and allowed these parties to address the floor in response. May states that on the second day of the convention, Reverend A. D. Mayo "unexpectedly gave us a speech of great ability", but asserts that the final day of the convention was the best, and that the audience seemed "reluctant rather than impatient to depart". May notifies Garrison that, at the suggestion of Susan B. Anthony, the decision was made to host an anti-slavery convention yearly in Albany the week following the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society
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