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Letter from Samuel May, Jr., Leicester, [Mass.], to William Lloyd Garrison, Apri[il] 4 / [18]73

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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Manuscript dated "Friday, Apr. 4 / 73".Samuel May, Jr. writes to William Lloyd Garrison expressing his concern for Garrison's health, advising him to refrain from "tasking" himself too strenuously, and states his pleasure in learning that Helen's health had recovered. May states that he has been busy "at work upon a Catalogue" for the recently-relocated public library. May states that he has recently received a copy of Samuel Joseph May's memoirs, and states his hopes that Garrison's health will be preserved long enough for him to complete his own authobiography. In closing, May states that in regards to the "Charles Sumner matter" that he could not but help feeling that Sumner had "invited censure by his course last summer".
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Civil War
  4. Civil War, 1861 1865
  5. Correspondence
  6. Democratic Party (U.S.)
  7. Election
  8. Elections
  9. Garrison, Helen Eliza 1811 1876
  10. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  11. Greeley, Horace 1811 1872
  12. History
  13. May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph) 1797 1871
  14. May, Samuel, Jr. 1810 1899
  15. Presidents
  16. Reconstruction (U.S. History, 1865 1877)
  17. Republican Party (U.S. : 1854)
  18. Slaver
  19. Sumner, Charles 1811 1874
  20. United States
  21. Wallcut, Robert Folger 1797 1884
  22. Webb, Richard Davis 1805 1872

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