Holograph, signed.

The letter from Samuel May to Anne Warren Weston is located on page 3 of this manuscript. May explains: "I had this letter from Giles Stebbins last week. I have written to [Parker] Pillsbury, to give him information of its contents..."

On pages 1-2 of this manuscript, there is a letter from Giles B. Stebbins to Samuel May. Stebbins writes: "I am, as you see, in the West on my way to Illinois and Wisconsin where I think of spending a few weeks lecturing on Anti-Slavery." Stebbins wants to know if the American Anti-Slavery Society will pay his traveling expenses,"...otherwise I shall go on my own responsibility." "Julia Griffiths...will probably go to England in June to get funds for the National Colored Industrial School." He thinks that Parker Pillsbury should know about her activities. Stebbins further describes his travels: "Such a tide of emigration never before poured into the great West as this spring. I crossed the lake in the "Western World" a magnificent steamer of 2500 tons..."