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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Annotation upon header of recto of manuscript reads "To W.L.G.".Samuel Joseph May writes his thanks and appreciation for Garrison's last letter, offering his assuredness that his "bereavement" [upon the death of his beloved wife, Lucretia Flagge Coffin May] would draw Garrison's "expressions of sympathy". May asserts that his wife "respected & loved" William Lloyd and Helen Garrison, and that their visit to the Mays' the previous Autumn had been a "great delight" to her. May exhults the character of his wife, who had suffered as an invalid for the "last thirteen years", and remarks that following forty years of loving marriage he "shall not soon, if ever, feel at home in this world without her". May asserts his rejoicing that his wife has "got beyond the dark valley", and explains that he would not bring her back were it possible, offering his preference to "go to her" rather "than have her come to me". May announces his hopes to be in Boston the following week, asserting that as he was in attendance at the first New England Anti Slavery Convention, he hopes to be present at what he presumes will be the last. May ends in commenting that they have "a great, an arduous work to do" in elevating and enfranchising the freedmen, and in aiding the "depressed and corrupted" Southern whites.

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