Letter from Mary Ide Torrey, South Scituate, [Massachusetts], to Amos Augustus Phelps, 1846 September 15

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Mary Ide Torrey, South Scituate, [Massachusetts], to Amos Augustus Phelps, 1846 September 15
Description:
Mary Ide Torrey writes Amos A. Phelps providing him instructions concerning a picture which belonged to Mr. Torrey and is now in Mr. Harned's hands. She also requests that he burn the letters Mr. Torrey wrote while he was in jail or return them to her "but do not show them to anyone else." She mentions the state of Phelps' poor health and notes that he has "one of the best of nurses in your wife."
Author:
Torrey, Mary Ide, 1817-1869
Addressee:
Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847
Date:
September 15, 1846
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Women abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--United States--History--19th century--Correspondence
Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--Religious aspects--Christianity--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--United States
Antislavery movements--United States
Christianity
Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847
Torrey, Mary Ide, 1817-1869
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 leaf (2 p.) ; 26 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2v23xg25t
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
South Scituate, [Massachusetts]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript composed in black ink on white paper. Above the first line, the number "100" is written in pencil.
Identifier:
5062964
Call #:
MS A.21 v.16, p.101
Barcode:
39999085441440