[Letter to] Dear Brother Phelps
Contributors: Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847, recipient
Published: 1839
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Antislavery movements; Meetings; Abolitionists; History
Other titles: Amos A. Phelps Correspondence (1821-1847) (Boston Public Library)
Description: Charles Turner Torrey writes to Amos A. Phelps describing "a good old fashioned A[nti]. S[lavery]. meeting" held in Pittsfield the day before where he gave a lecture.  Torrey also tells Phelps about "some wild youths, a few of them southerners" who made disturbances in the town, including "demolishing in part the steps of the shop of a prominent abolitionist and the steps of the Baptist Church in which the meetings were held."  Torrey also says the youths showed "love for the cause of - scoundrelism, in a new form - by throwing cents at me as I stood in the pulpit," to which Torrey "thanked the hopeful youth for the contribution."  He adds that he "would willingly be pelted till doomsday by money for the cause of the poor."  He closes the letter by telling Phelps his travel plans for the week and in the postscript he discusses the quantities of books he has ordered.
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Title devised by cataloger.

On verso, the delivery address is "Rev. A. A. Phelps, Rec. Sec. of Mass. Abo. Society, Boston, Ms."

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript composed in black ink on white paper with an embossed rectangular logo in the head- spine corner.  Above the salutation, the number "156" is written in pencil.  On the third page, along the spine edge there is a hole measuring 1.8 x .5 cm, while along the fore edge is the remnant of a red seal.

Cataloged sgellerman