May tells Webb that he was surprised to hear that Parker Pillsbury had said that the "National Anti-Slavery Standard" was "but little read here [in the U.S.]." May says that William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips disagreed with Pillsbury; May thinks Pillsbury made a mistake. He says the "Standard" has a small, but intelligent, audience that differs from that of "The Liberator." He informs Webb that Oliver Johnson organized the New York Anti-Slavery Society and arranged for a very successful course of thirteen lectures on slavery. He says that the "Standard" is an "authoritative, able and regular exponent of the faith and works of the American Abolitionists" and is not dependent on English patronage. May voices his worry for Pillsbury's illness. In a continuation of the letter dated March 31, 1854, May says that Edmund Quincy estimates ten readers for every copy of the "Standard." Quincy also remarked on the influence the journal had on the newspapers of the country, with many of which it exchanges issues. May decides against giving William P. Powell of Liverpool the work of distributing the pamphlets in the annual box of reports. He says that Stephen and Abby Kelley Foster agree with him about the "Standard" and discusses the Kansas-Nebraska Act.