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Envelope includes original postage stampHolograph, signedMay's handwriting on the envelope reads, "Rec'd. Oct. 28."Title supplied by catalogerPillsbury says that he spoke in Reverend [Henry William] Crosskey's Unitarian chapel and requests that May write to Crosskey. Pillsbury mentions Professor John Pringle Nichol as an enthusiastic abolitionist and an admirer of Theodore Parker. Professor Nichol said Lajos Kossuth was friendlier to abolition than was commonly supposed. Pillsbury remarks on the number of alleged American abolitionists collecting money for Canadian charities for African Americans. He tells May of his personal finances and his time spent in Scotland during the month of September. Pillsbury reports on the Manchester Anti-Slavery Conference, saying that Joseph Barker was "gagged." Pillsbury admits to disliking Louis Alexis Chamerovzow and quotes from a letter written by Chamerovzow to John Bishop Estlin. Pillsbury asserts that Chamerovzow is trying to unite the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society and the American abolitionists

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