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Letter from Samuel May, Boston, [Mass.], 9 Burroughs Place, to Maria Weston Chapman, Sunday, Nov. 22, [1857]

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Holograph, signed.This letter is concerned with bills of lading and dates for the executive committee meetings, which must suit Maria Weston Chapman as well as Abby Kelly Foster. Samuel May asks if anyone in Weymouth would like to employ a sober, industrious man "for his board." The man, who was recommended by Mrs. Lydia Maria Child, has lived with Samuel May the past seven months. Samuel May is sending a "few words" for the Liberty Bell. [Samuel May wrote "The Voice of the Departed," a tribute to the late Rev. George Armstrong of Bristol, England, printed in the Liberty Bell for 1858, p. 320-324.]
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  1. Antislavery Movements
  2. Bills Of Lading
  3. Boston
  4. Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
  5. Child, Lydia Maria 1802 1880
  6. Correspondence
  7. Foster, Abby Kelley 1811 1887
  8. History
  9. Liberty Bell (Boston, Mass.)
  10. Massachusetts
  11. May, Samuel, Jr. 1810 1899
  12. Slaver
  13. United States
  14. Women
  15. Women Abolitionists

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