[Letter to] Dear Brother Phelps
Contributors: Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847, recipient
Published: 1837
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Protestant churches; History; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists
Other titles: Amos A. Phelps Correspondence (1821-1847) (Boston Public Library)
Description: In this letter to Amos A. Phelps, Lewis Tappan criticizes a call for the formation of an Evangelical antislavery society that was made recently, and suggests a possibility of yet another kind of new organization. He also discusses abolitionism in churches, and comments that forming new churches would be a more effective way than laboring to ́abolitionizé the churches.
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Title devised by cataloger.

On verso, the delivery address is "Rev. Amos A. Phelps, Boston."

It is stamped, "PHELPS MSS."