[Letter to] Dear Brother
Contributors: Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847, recipient
Published: 1838
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Publishing; Emancipator (New York, N.Y. :1835); Newspapers; History; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists
Other titles: Amos A. Phelps Correspondence (1821-1847) (Boston Public Library)
Description: Charles Turner Torrey writes to Amos A. Phelps notifying him that the county meeting at Andover will be held on Septermber 12th and will cause him to miss "the meeting of the Board of Missions at Portland" occurring the same weekend.  He then asks Phelps for his opinions about "what they have done at Haverhill about the women" and expresses his dislike for "the sneering tone of the Emancipator."  Torrey tells Phelps, "A new paper we must have - able & sound Anti-Slavery and not religious."  He then informs Phelps he has engaged Ira Pettybone to preach for 12 weeks but could not find any others, and asks Phelps if he could recommend anybody.
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Title devised by cataloger.

Above the salutation, the letter is addressed to "Rev. A. Anti-Slavery Phelps (as Mrs. T always calls you)."

On verso, the delivery address is "Rev. Amos A. Phelps, Boston, Mass." It was postmarked with a brown circular stamp that reads "Salem Mas. Aug 14"

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 with an embossed rectangle logo in the head- spine corner.  Above the first line of the letter, along the spine edge of the page, the number "69" is written in pencil.  Along the spine edge of the letter, there are also four small, evenly-spaced, perforations. On the verso, there is about half of a red seal below the delivery address, near the spine edge of the page.  Also on this last page, in the tail- fore corner, the phrase "MS.A.21.8.72" is written in pencil.

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