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    "title": "Letter from Samuel May, Jr., 21 Cornhill, Boston [Mass.], to James Miller M'Kim, March 21, 1860",
    "description": "Samuel May Jr. writes to James Miller McKim to request that McKim aid David Lee Child who is collecting the evidence that Southerners instigated the pro-slavery mobs that occurred in Northern cities. In a section marked “private,” May asks McKim about Mahlon B. Linton from McKim’s state, who volunteered to be an agent of the American Anti-Slavery Society.",
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        "Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence",
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