Letter from Lewis Tappan, New York, to Amos Augustus Phelps, 1847 February 22
Description:
In this letter to Amos A. Phelps, Lewis Tappan discusses matters related to the American Missionary Association and the Washington newspaper (the National era). After talking about the death of Phelps’s mother, Tappan discusses the bills relating to slavery that were passed by the legislatures of different states, as well as the Wilmot Proviso passed by the House of Representatives.
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
On verso, the delivery address is "Rev. A. A. Phelps, Care Rev. J. O. Beardslee, Mico Institution, Kingston, Jamaica." It was postmarked in Kingston, Jamaica on March 23 1847.
