PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::00288::Samuel Joseph May Collection)//EN" "ViU00288.sgm" A Guide to the Samuel Joseph May CollectionMay, Samuel Joseph. 7202Processed by Special Collections Dept. staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Elizabeth SlombaFunded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. University of Virginia Library © 1997 By the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. All rights reserved.

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 Machine-readable finding aid derived from WordPerfect. [Date of source: 1997. Description is in English. Feb 16, 2004 PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::00288::Samuel Joseph May Collection)//EN" "ViU00288.sgm" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Feb 27, 2004 converted to conform to eadVIVA.dtd by vivastrict.xsl A Guide to the Samuel Joseph May Collection A Collection in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature 7202

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library 1997 Special Collections Department Staff 1997 Elizabeth Slomba Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, #7202 Descriptive Summary University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept.
Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 USA
Samuel Joseph May Collection ca. 1822-1871 7202 3 items English Administrative Information Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

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See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

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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

 Item Listing Letters Samuel Joseph Mayto "Dear Sir" ca. 1822-25 ALS, 2 p.

[Despite Henry Colman's persuasions he must decline the invitation to preach before returning to Brooklyn, Conn. ]

 Samuel Joseph Mayto Daniel Webster 1842 March 28 ALS, 2 p.

[Letter contains a copy of the resolution passed at a meeting of Plymouth Countyabolitionists 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).]

 Miscellaneous List of Samuel Joseph Mayss's major accomplishments 1871 Memorial, 1 p.