Letter from Elizur Wright, New York, to Amos Augustus Phelps, 1834 Jan[uary] 11

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Title:
Letter from Elizur Wright, New York, to Amos Augustus Phelps, 1834 Jan[uary] 11
Description:
Elizur Wright Jr. writes to Amos A. Phelps about the slave whip which Phelps desired to obtain. He writes, "I have bought one for 3/4 of a dollar and forward it this day by the favor of Philip A. Bell to the Liberator Office. The whip goes by the name of an 'overseer's whip'...and the journeyman who sold it to me says they sell 'a great many hundreds of them in a year.' He seemed quite surprised when he found that I did not wish to purchase a 'quantity.'" He also writes his disappointment that Phelps cannot take an agency and admits that he and others are "looking wishfully for your 'lectures'."
Author:
Wright, Elizur, 1804-1885
Addressee:
Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847
Date:
January 11, 1834
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--Lectures and lecturing--United States--History--19th century
Whips--Costs--United States--19th century
Antislavery movements--Societies, etc--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Lectures and lecturing
Slavery--United States--History--19th century
Whips
Societies
Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847
Wright, Elizur, 1804-1885
Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
Extent:
1 leaf (2 p.) ; 25 cm.
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Place of origin:
New York
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Identifier:
5101082
Call #:
MS A.21 v.4, p.6
Barcode:
39999085427258