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[Letter to] Dear Brother Phelps [manuscript]   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Torrey, Charles T. (Charles Turner), 1813-1846, author
Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847, recipient
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[Letter to] Dear Brother Phelps [manuscript]
Description
Holograph, signed
Title devised by cataloger
On verso, the delivery address is "Rev. A. A. Phelps, Boston, Mass." It was postmarked with an orange circular stamp but the words are illegible
It is stamped, "PHELPS MSS." in the head- fore corner of the first page
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript composed in black ink on white paper. Above the salutation, the number "82" is written in pencil. There are also four small, evenly-spaced, perforations running along the spine edge of the page. On the third page, there is about a red seal along the fore edge and a brown circular spot in the middle of the page. On the last page, in the tail- fore corner, the phrase "MS.A.21.8.86" is written in pencil
Charles Turner Torrey writes to Amos A. Phelps about establishing a new newspaper as the official organ of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. He proposes questions Phelps should send out to abolitionists across the state to test the prospects for this new paper. He also comments that the idea is growing in Andover and "that some of the warmest Garrisonites in Andover are now in favor of it." Torrey also discusses politics and the recent elections, stating in the postscript, stating the Whigs "are now making ridicule of our whole movement to cover up their own want of principle."
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Subjects: Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847; Torrey, Charles T. (Charles Turner), 1813-1846; Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society; Abolitionists; Antislavery movements; Antislavery movements
Language English
Publication date 1838
publication_date QS:P577,+1838-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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IA Collections: bplscas; bostonpubliclibrary; americana
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lettertodearbrot00torr_1
Authority file  OCLC: 1048323622
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Internet Archive identifier: lettertodearbrot00torr_1
https://archive.org/download/lettertodearbrot00torr_1/39999085504122.pdf

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