• publisher: Boston
  • creator: May, Samuel, 1810-1899 Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872, recipient
  • contributor: Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872, recipient.
  • Keyword: May, Samuel, 1810-1899. Correspondence. Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872 Correspondence. Abolitionists United States 19th century Correspondence. Antislavery movements United States History 19th century. Letters. Manuscripts.
  • years: March 16, 1853.
  • pages: 1 leaf (2 p.) ;
  • notes: Holograph, signed.
  • description: May reports that the ship carrying the box of reports to Ireland was delayed. He informs Webb that he wishes that Irish Americans would help the slaves, "but evil and designing men have worked on their ignorance and vanity [...] and on their poverty and need." He says that Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has had interviews with William Lloyd Garrison, but that he does not know her opinion of the Boston Abolitionists. May praises Reverend James Miller McKim, who he believes would be a good representative of the American abolitionist cause were he to travel to Great Britain.
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