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Letter from James Miller M'Kim, Germantown, [Pa.], to Samuel May, Jr., July 19th 1865
1865-07-19
M'Kim, J. Miller (James Miller), 1810-1874, May, Samuel, Jr., 1810-1899
Holograph, signed.
- Title:
- Letter from James Miller M'Kim, Germantown, [Pa.], to Samuel May, Jr., July 19th 1865
- Creator:
- M'Kim, J. Miller (James Miller), 1810-1874, May, Samuel, Jr., 1810-1899
- Date Created:
- 1865-07-19
- Description:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Manuscript annotated on recto, with "117" in pencil beneath M'Kim's salutation to May, and "1865" in pencil beneath letterhead address/date.
This date is inferred.
James Miller M'Kim relates to Samuel May, Jr. his labors in New York City with the American Freedmen's Aid Union. M'Kim states that he had returned to Germantown for a few days' rest, and came upon May's letter by accident. M'Kim relates conflicting reports presented to him by mutual friends relating to the quality of the new newspaper "The Nation" to Garrison.
Item details
- Partner:
- Digital Commonwealth
- Contributing Institution:
- Boston Public Library
- Subjects:
- Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Freedmen--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Social reformers--United States
Freed persons--United States
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
American Freedmen's Aid Commission
United States Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
May, Samuel, Jr. 1810-1899
M'Kim, J. Miller (James Miller) 1810-1874
Purvis, Robert 1810-1898 - Type:
- text
- Format:
- CorrespondenceManuscripts
- Rights:
- No known restrictions on use.
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