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[Letter to] Dear Mr. May [manuscript]   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872
Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872, recipient
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Title
[Letter to] Dear Mr. May [manuscript]
Publisher
Dublin
Description
A note in pencil on the envelope indicates that Robert Folger Wallcut also read the letter, "Mr. Webb's placing my name on one corner of this letter emboldened me to open it."
Addressed to May at 21 Cornhill, Boston. A note in the corner of the envelope reads, "or Mr. Wallcut."
Envelope includes two original postage stamps
Holograph, signed
May's handwriting on the envelope reads, "Rec'd Apr. 13. Ans'd [Apr.] 19 (in part)." Another note by May reads, "Relating to Rich[ar]d W. Webb, in California."
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Webb informs May that his son was unable to find employment in Australia and that he plans to return via San Francisco and the Isthmus of Panama. Webb asks May to help his son if necessary. He mentions Sarah Parker Remond and attacks "popery."

Subjects: May, Samuel, 1810-1899; Wallcut, Robert Folger, 1797-1884; Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872; Abolitionists; Antislavery movements
Language English
Publication date 1859
publication_date QS:P577,+1859-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Current location
IA Collections: bplscas; bostonpubliclibrary; americana
Accession number
lettertodearmrma00webb_6
Authority file  OCLC: 1048312187
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Internet Archive identifier: lettertodearmrma00webb_6
https://archive.org/download/lettertodearmrma00webb_6/39999063861684.pdf

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