[Letter to] Dear Br Phelps
Contributors: Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847, recipient
Published: 1838
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; History; Brown University; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists
Other titles: Amos A. Phelps Correspondence (1827-1847) (Boston Public Library)
Description: J. M. Blakesley writes to Amos A. Phelps about his efforts to form a county antislavery society. He talks about a recent mob activity in Chatam, N. Y. and says a more formidable one is expected to come. Answering Phelpśs inquiry about Dr. Wayland and the efforts to suppress abolition in Brown University, Blakesley reports a few facts.
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Title devised by cataloger.

On verso, the delivery address is "Rev Amos A. Phelps, Boston, Ms." It is postmarked in Spencertown, N. Y., on April 12.

The manuscript is stamped, "PHELPS, MSS."