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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Edmund Quincy writes to Samuel May acknowleding receiving his letter which included an enclosed letter from Richard Davis Webb to Quincy. He tells May that he is leaving for Worcester on Tuesday, but since he cannot be away from home for more than two nights, he will not be able to lecture in Leciester. Quincy says that Webb's letter "contains no particular news" and that Webb "seems to be in his usual excellent frame of mind." Webb also said the Frederick Douglass "is doing very well with his book" in Ireland. In the postscript, Quincy discusses Thomas Treadwell Stone and the possibility of him working as an agent during the "Spring Campaign." He also mentions that Treadwell asked about an agent position for a friend of his and that John Weiss was also asked "to take an agency at the same time." He stresses that agents are a "necessity," saying "the harvest is great, but the labourers are few." Quincy also says that a man named "Bowker, of Hopkinton" told him about "a young man there, whose name I have forgotten, who was an excellent speaker & one whom he thought would make a good agent." Quincy asks May to speak to Bowker about this man and bring him to the Worcester meeting. Again he tells May, "there is nothing we want so much as a fresh crop of agents, to make good the places which New Organization & no organization have left empty."

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