Letter from Samuel Joseph May, Syracuse, [New York], to Robert Folger Wallcut, 1862 June 17

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Title:
Letter from Samuel Joseph May, Syracuse, [New York], to Robert Folger Wallcut, 1862 June 17
Description:
Samuel Joseph May writes to Robert Folger Wallcut enclosing the $9.75 requested in an earlier bill. He describes his trip to Virginia and "to the hospitals in several cities and to the hospital boats at the White House" as introducing him "to scenes that I can never forget." May says that he cannot write out descriptions of what he saw but mentions that "more than two thousand soldiers were brought to the Sanitary Commission at the White House during the four days that I staid [sic] there." He then describes the lecture he gave at City Hall to report on his trip "and the execution of the commission wh[ich] they had entrusted to me."
Author:
May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871
Addressee:
Wallcut, Robert Folger, 1797-1884
Date:
June 17, 1862
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Lectures and lecturing--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Lectures and lecturing
Antislavery movements--United States
Social reformers--United States
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States Sanitary Commission
Wallcut, Robert Folger, 1797-1884
May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871
Extent:
1 leaf (3 p.) ; 21 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2v23xk85w
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
Syracuse, [New York]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript composed in black ink on white paper with an embossed circle in the head- spine corner bearing a banner that reads "Commercial". Along the head edge, "To R.F. Wallcut" is written and underlined in a different handwriting and different shade of black ink. Above the salutation the number "74" is written in pencil. On verso, "Saml. J. May Syracuse N.Y. 21 June 1862" is written in pencil next to a math equation.
Identifier:
5073945
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.31, p.129B
Barcode:
39999085440921