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[Letter to] My dear cousin and friend [manuscript]   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author
May, Samuel, 1810-1899
May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871 recipient
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Title
[Letter to] My dear cousin and friend [manuscript]
Publisher
Cambridge
Description
Holograph, signed
Title devised by cataloger
On verso, the delivery address is "Rev. Samuel J. May, Brooklyn. (Conn:)." It is postmarked Cambridge, Jan. 20
Samuel May Jr. (Writer) asks Samuel J. May (Recipient) to write more often. He expresses an approval of the Unionist (publication), and goes on speculating why God allowed slavery (saying that god perhaps decided “to disclose his character to men gradually”). The letter ends with a report of Writer?s activities since he last wrote to the recipient

Subjects: May, Samuel, 1810-1899; May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists
Language English
Publication date 1834
publication_date QS:P577,+1834-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Current location
IA Collections: bplscas; bostonpubliclibrary; americana
Accession number
lettertomydearco00mays_2
Authority file  OCLC: 1048313464
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Internet Archive identifier: lettertomydearco00mays_2
https://archive.org/download/lettertomydearco00mays_2/39999063872830.pdf

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