[Letter to] Dear Brother Phelps
Contributors: Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847, recipient
Published: 1838
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Lectures and lecturing; Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society; Abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Other titles: Amos A. Phelps Correspondence (1821-1847) (Boston Public Library)
Description: In this letter to Amos A. Phelps, Charles Turner Torrey writes about his committee's plan to send abolitionist speakers to towns in Massachusetts.  Torrey then describes the attitudes of "the Liberator men" and asks Phelps to notify him of any changes to the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society and its officers.  In two postscripts, Torrey mentions finding someone to work throughout the year and asks Phelps whether "your Executive Comm. prefer that we should pay."
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Title devised by cataloger.

On verso, the delivery address is "Rev. A. A. Phelps, Boston, Mass."  It was postmarked with a brown circular stamp that reads "Salem Mas. Jun 29".

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 salutation, the number "55" is written in pencil.  Along the spine edge of the letter, there are four small, evenly-spaced, perforations.  On the verso, there are partial remains of two red seals along the spine edge of the page.  There is also a hole in the page extending 1.4 cm from the fore edge.

Cataloged sgellerman