Letter from Lewis Tappan, New York, to Amos Augustus Phelps, Dec 27 / 37

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Lewis Tappan, New York, to Amos Augustus Phelps, Dec 27 / 37
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 “abolitionize” the churches.
Author:
Tappan, Lewis, 1788-1873
Addressee:
Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847
Date:
[December 27, 1837]
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Protestant churches--United States--History
Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847
Tappan, Lewis, 1788-1873
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 25 x 40 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/5h740m031
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
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Place of origin:
New York
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
On verso, the delivery address is "Rev. Amos A. Phelps, Boston."
It is stamped, "PHELPS MSS."
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
5011334
Call #:
MS A.21.7 (119)
Barcode:
39999085500716