Overview
Letter from May Laidley of New Richmond, Ohio, to Mrs. G. W. Summers of Kanawah County, West Virginia, describing Laidley's visits with an unnamed African American woman who is an acquaintance of the Summers family and may have been enslaved by them.
Dates
- Creation: 1865
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Access Restrictions:
Access. Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. The papers created by May Laidley are in the public domain.
Copying. Papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures.
Extent
1 folderThe May Laidley letter consists of a letter from May Laidley of New Richmond, Ohio, to Mrs. G. W. Summers of Kanawah County, West Virginia. The letter describes Laidley's visits with an unnamed African American woman who is an acquaintance of the Summers family and may have been enslaved by them. Laidley writes that the woman misses the Summers family and she "says she does wish she was a slave again." Laidley also describes the woman's unhappiness with life in Ohio and discrimination faced there by African Americans.
BIOGRAPHY
May Laidley lived in New Richmond, Ohio, in the 1860s.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession number: 2020-M53
The May Laidley Letter was acquired from the Swann Galleries in May 2020.
Processing Information
Processed: November 2020
By: Paula Aloisio
The Schlesinger Library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections, and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit. Finding aids may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
- Author
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
- Language of description
- eng
- Sponsor
- Processing of this collection was made possible by gifts from the Radcliffe College Class of 1957 Schlesinger Library Fund and the Gerard Schlesinger Library Fund.
- EAD ID
- sch01931
Repository Details
Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository
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