[Letter] [manuscript]
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- Publication date
- 1863
- Publisher
- Edinburgh
- Collection
- bplscas; bostonpubliclibrary; americana
- Contributor
- Boston Public Library
- Language
- English
Holograph, signed
Title supplied by cataloger
Envelope includes original postage stamp. In a note on the inner flap of the envelope, Miss Wigham asks May to forward a letter to Dr. Cheever
Addressed to 221 Washington Street, Boston
May's writing on the envelope reads, "Rec'd Feb. 3 / 63. Ans'd [Feb.] 10 / [63]" and "E. Wigham's Account for 1862."
Miss Wigham discusses the Emancipation Proclamation. She mentions the distressed condition of the Lancashire cotton spinners and George Thompson's advice to the English to raise cotton in other parts of the world. Miss Wigham objects to the attacks on England in the abolition newspapers. She says that she has read of slaves returned to their masters in Washington. Miss Wigham asks for news of William Shreve Bailey, mentions Richard Davis Webb, sends a business account, and orders a copy of a book by Mrs. Lydia Maria Child: "The Right Way the Safe Way."
Title supplied by cataloger
Envelope includes original postage stamp. In a note on the inner flap of the envelope, Miss Wigham asks May to forward a letter to Dr. Cheever
Addressed to 221 Washington Street, Boston
May's writing on the envelope reads, "Rec'd Feb. 3 / 63. Ans'd [Feb.] 10 / [63]" and "E. Wigham's Account for 1862."
Miss Wigham discusses the Emancipation Proclamation. She mentions the distressed condition of the Lancashire cotton spinners and George Thompson's advice to the English to raise cotton in other parts of the world. Miss Wigham objects to the attacks on England in the abolition newspapers. She says that she has read of slaves returned to their masters in Washington. Miss Wigham asks for news of William Shreve Bailey, mentions Richard Davis Webb, sends a business account, and orders a copy of a book by Mrs. Lydia Maria Child: "The Right Way the Safe Way."
- Addeddate
- 2014-01-21 20:38:55.267675
- Associated-names
- May, Samuel, 1810-1899, recipient
- External-identifier
- urn:oclc:record:1048317108
- Identifier
- lettermanuscript00wigh
- Identifier-ark
- ark:/13960/t3904md6n
- Invoice
- 6
- Ocr
- tesseract 5.3.0-6-g76ae
- Ocr_detected_lang
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- Ocr_detected_lang_conf
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- Ocr_detected_script
- Japanese
- Ocr_detected_script_conf
- 1.0000
- Ocr_module_version
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- Ocr_parameters
- -l eng
- Openlibrary_edition
- OL25640718M
- Openlibrary_work
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- Pages
- 8
- Pdf_module_version
- 0.0.23
- Scandate
- 20141031
- Scanningcenter
- boston
- Full catalog record
- MARCXML
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