Letter from Samuel Joseph May, Brooklyn, [Connecticut], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1832 Mar[ch] 16

In this letter to William Lloyd Garrison, Samuel Joseph May writes that the letter will be given to Garrison "by Mr. [Charles] Webber a worthy young man who is engaged to publish our paper and now goes to Boston to procure the type and other necessaries." May wishes for his paper to be similar in size to the Liberator, describing Garrison's paper as "one of the handsomest papers I have seen." He asks him to assist Webber to gather supplies and promises that his own paper "will not be silent on the subject of slavery", in addition to furthering the cause of "religious Liberty." May also sends Garrison a letter "from a friend in Tallahassee", Florida, giving him permission to publish a specific excerpt with the instructions, "you must not announce either the authors name or his place of residence" (this letter is printed in the Liberator of March 24, 1832, Vol. X, no.19, under the title "Evils of Slavery"). Additionally, he sends Garrison "several imperfect copies of my Discourse," and in the postscript, he says Garrison can return the enclosed letter to Mr. Webber if he has "made use of it before he returns."

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