[Letter to] Dear Mr. May

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• Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) Samuel May Correspondence.

Description

In one of the two letters included in this item, Samuel May Jr. (Writer) asks Samuel J. May (Recipient) about the poem that was supposed to be enclosed together with S. Alfred Steinthal's letter (which Recipient forwarded to Writer). He says the letter in question (from Steinthal) must have been meant for him but misdirected to Recipient by mistake. He then goes on talking about the grand jury trial for the Anthony Burns incidence and Thomas Wentworth Higginson who was arrested after a riot related to the incidence. The other letter is to Samuel May Jr. from Parker Pillsbury who was serving as an emissary from the American Anti-Slavery Society to Great Britain. He reports that they had a ́ground meeting ́ and that its proceedings are in press in pamphlet form. He criticizes [Dr. Beald] for his speech, and expresses skepticism about Dr. Campbell and the British Banner (which had run negative press about Pillsbury before) for suddenly lauding him and the conference in which he was involved. He still says the conference received generally positive comments on papers, except for on the London Inquirer. He then explains how Mr. Baines?s letter and his own letter to him turned into a tract for circulation.

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