Letter from Samuel Joseph May, Syracuse, [N.Y.], to William Lloyd Garrison, Feb[ruary] 19 1864

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Title:
Letter from Samuel Joseph May, Syracuse, [N.Y.], to William Lloyd Garrison, Feb[ruary] 19 1864
Description:
Samuel Joseph May writes William Lloyd Garrison expressing his pains and profound sympathies for Garrison in the "deep afflication that has overshadowed [Garrison's] household", reminding Garrison that he has been daily in his thoughts. May states his pleasure to see that Garrison was able to attend the Anti-Slavery meetings in the previous weeks. May muses on the character of President Abraham Lincoln, offering his view that while Lincoln displays an anxiousness to "be and to do right", he is too often liable to "err through the influences" of his education, his "evil" advisors, and the "complicated difficulties" of his course of action. May congratulates Garrison upon the arrival of George Thompson, and states that he "chafes" at his distance from Boston. May declares his hopes that Thompson shall journey to Syracuse to deliver a speech. May relays his having learned from various mutual friends of the improving physical state of Helen Garrison, and states his wish for Garrison to write him shortly on the subject. May comments on the sound health of his daughter Charlotte, who had given birth to a healthy infant only three weeks earlier.
Author:
May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
February 10, 1864
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Antislavery movements--Meetings--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Lectures and lecturing--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--England--19th century
Social reformers--England--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Meetings
Lectures and lecturing
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Social reformers--United States
Abolitionists
Social reformers
May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Thompson, George, 1804-1878
Garrison, Helen Eliza, 1811-1876
Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884
Wilkinson, Charlotte Coffin May, 1833-1909
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Places:
England
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 26.5 x 20.5 cm.
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Place of origin:
Syracuse, [N.Y.]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Identifier:
4699014
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.33, p.10A
Barcode:
39999066759174