Lewis Tappan papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 5200
Subjects: Credit ratings; American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society; American Bible Society; Amistad (Schooner); General Anti-slavery Convention; American Missionary Association; Correspondence; New York journal of commerce (New York, N.Y.); Antislavery movements; Commerce; Credit bureaus; Union Missionary Society (U.S.); American Anti-Slavery Society; Slavery; History; Education; American missionary; Religion; African Americans; Mercantile Agency (New York, N.Y.); Liberty Party (U.S. : 1840-1848); National era (Washington, D.C.)
Description: Correspondence, journals, autobiographical notes, scrapbook, and other papers reflecting Tappan's interests in abolition, African American education, religion, and his business ventures.  Subjects include the annexation of Texas; the slave ship Amistad (Schooner); Tappan's credit-rating firm, the Mercantile Agency (New York, N.Y.); and the Tappan family.  Includes a diary kept by Tappan while attending the General Anti-slavery Convention, London, Eng., in 1843; and correspondence concerning organizations and publications with which he was associated such as the American Bible Society, American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, American Colonization Society, the American Missionary, American Missionary Association, Liberty Party (U.S.), the National Era (Washington, D.C.), the New York Journal of Commerce (New York, N.Y.), and Union Missionary Society (U.S.).

Correspondents include John Quincy Adams, James Gillespie Birney, Frederick Douglass, Seth Merrill Gates, Jonathan Green, Samuel D. Hastings, William Jay, Joshua Leavitt, Amos A. Phelps, Theodore Sedgwick, Joseph Sturge, Arthur Tappan, Benjamin Tappan, John Greenleaf Whittier, and members of the Aspinwall and Tappan families.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition available, no. 16,431.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1975.

In part, photocopies. [S.l.].

Oberlin College Library and other repositories.

Gift, Anna Hulett and other sources, 1928-1958.

Purchase, 1982.

Abolitionist, merchant, and publisher.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011154

Letter (1857 May 16; New York, N.Y.) written by Tappan to Henry A. Miles, Boston, Mass.  Formerly cataloged under Lewis Tappan correspondence as part of the Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.  Added to the Lewis Tappan papers in 2010.