Letter from Samuel May, 21 Cornhill, Boston, [Mass.], to Maria Weston Chapman, Fri. p.m. 13th Nov. [1857]
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Holograph, signed.Samuel May, Jr., has inquired about the use of Horticultural Hall on School Street, Boston, for the anti-slavery bazaar and reports on the negotiations about the price. On March 9th, Mary Estlin sent Samuel May a copy of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's letter to Lord Shaftesbury, Lord Carlisle, Joseph Sturge, etc., "relative to her use of the English Anti-Slavery funds confided to her care." This letter was entrusted to a Mr. Devell and only reached Samuel May today. Mrs. Stowe sent her letter care of Joseph Sturge, who sent it on "to the select few only and suppressed it to the general." The reason for the suppression was Mrs. Stowe's eulogy of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Miss Estlin "lays on us a special injunction not to let it [the letter] get into print."
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- American Anti Slavery Society
- Anti Slavery Fairs
- Antislavery Movements
- Boston
- Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
- Correspondence
- History
- Massachusetts
- May, Samuel, Jr. 1810 1899
- Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl Of 1801 1885
- Slaver
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher 1811 1896
- Sturge, Joseph 1793 1859
- United States
- Women
- Women Abolitionists