Wigham, Eliza
Description
Addressed to 21 Cornhill, Boston.Envelope includes original postage stamp.Holograph, signed.May's handwriting reads "Rec'd July 9 / 58. Ans'd [July] 12, [58]."Title supplied by cataloger.Miss Wigham sympathizes with May over Mrs. Maria Weston Chapman's failure to consult the Bazaar Committee about the discontinuance of the anti-slavery fair. She praises William Lloyd Garrison's adherence to principle and asks why the Reverend George Barrell Cheever is not a Garrisonian.
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Digital CommonwealthKeywords
- Abolitionists
- Antislavery Movements
- Correspondence
- History
- May, Samuel, Jr. 1810 1899
- Slaver
- United States
- Wigham, Eliza
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