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    "title": "Letter from Mentia Taylor, [London], to Samuel May, March 13th, 1865",
    "description": "Mrs. Taylors sends money to the Boston Freedmen's Aid Society. She says that she read some of May's letters to Eliza Wigham and has heard about the abolitionists from Sarah Parker Remond. Mrs. Taylors says that the English are too far away from the war to be much interested in it.",
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        "Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence",
        "Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century",
        "Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century",
        "Antislavery movements--United States",
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        "Envelope is addressed to May care of Robert Folger Wallcut, Liberator Office, 221 Washington Street, Boston.",
        "Holograph, signed.",
        "Letter is written on stationery of the Aubrey House, Notting Hill. The envelope is embossed with the insignia of the Victoria Press.",
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