[Letter to] Dear Mr. Webb

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May praises a copy he received of "The Life and Letters of Captain John Brown," which was written by Webb. According to May, Wendell Phillips criticized the photograph of John Brown in the book, saying "he wished the portrait had had the beard; - not that he specially likes beards (he never wears one himself) but that that seems to him the aspect of the hero martyr of Harper's Ferry." May reports that his son is a paymaster on the gunboat, "Unadilla." He condemns Lincoln's censure of General John Charles Frémont for his proclamation about the slaves. May then lists the contents of a box of anti-slavery material and voices worry about the prospect of the discontinuation of the "Anti-Slavery Advocate."

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Series Statement

• Samuel May Correspondence