Letter from Samuel May, Leicester, Massachusetts, to John Bishop Estlin, July 16 and 18, 1848

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Samuel May, Leicester, Massachusetts, to John Bishop Estlin, July 16 and 18, 1848
Description:
May discusses certain subscription payments he made on Estlin's behalf before giving an account of the case against Edward Sayres and Daniel Drayton and the escaped slaves of the schooner, "Pearl." May writes at length on Senator John P. Hale, Zachary Taylor, the Liberty Party, Martin Van Buren, the "Conscience Whigs," and the "Barnburners." He describes his own affairs in Leicester before reporting that Mrs. Maria Weston Chapman plans to go to Europe for two to three years. May informs Estlin that William Lloyd Garrison intends to take the cold water treatment for erysipelas and that the annual meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society and the yearly New England Anti-Slavery Convention were both very successful. He says that Dr. Lowell urged a study of the history of slavery at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Convention of Congregational Ministers. May mentions the unexpected and tragic death of his father-in-law, Nathaniel P. Russell, who drowned at sea. He tells of the Spiridone Gambardella portrait of William Ellery Channing and refers to the increased postal rates due to the establishment of a foreign postage tax. May also tells of the failure of Howitt's Journal, laments Estlin's displeasure in reading Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Evangeline," and touches on the poetry in "The Liberator" which he has endeavored to improve.
Author:
May, Samuel, Jr., 1810-1899
Addressee:
Estlin, J. B. (John Bishop), 1785-1855
Date:
July 16, 1848–July 18, 1848
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
May, Samuel, Jr., 1810-1899
Pearl (Schooner)
Estlin, J. B. (John Bishop), 1785-1855
Extent:
1 leaf (17 p.) ; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.
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Place of origin:
Leicester, Massachusetts
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
One page is crossed out in its entirety and marked, "private," in the hand of Samuel May.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Identifier:
4534132
Call #:
MS B.1.6 v.2, p.77
Barcode:
39999063863136