A Guide to the Samuel Joseph May Collection
A Collection in the
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature
Accession number 7202
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Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
Collection is open to research.
Use Restrictions
See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.
Preferred Citation
Samuel Joseph May Collection, Accession 7202, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Acquisition Information
Purchase, 1963 February 25
Funding Note
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Daniel Webster
- Edward Everett
- Henry Colman
- Samuel Joseph May
- Samuel Joseph Mays
Item Listing
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Samuel Joseph May to "Dear Sir"ca. 1822-25ALS , 2 p.
[Despite Henry Colman 's persuasions he must decline the invitation to preach before returning to Brooklyn, Conn . ]
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Samuel Joseph May to Daniel Webster1842 March 28ALS , 2 p.
[Letter contains a copy of the resolution passed at a meeting of Plymouth County abolitionists on March 25, 1842 which demands that Edward Everett , American minister to the Court of St. James, disobey Secretary of State Webster's instruction requesting that the British surrender the slaves on the Creole (Creole Slave Case 1841).]