Letter from Charles Turner Torrey, Salem, [Mass.], to Amos Augustus Phelps, [1839] March 21st

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Charles Turner Torrey, Salem, [Mass.], to Amos Augustus Phelps, [1839] March 21st
Description:
Charles Turner Torrey writes to Amos A. Phelps challenging him to answer "In one word ... why the Am[erican]. A[nti] S[lavery] Society ceased to support Hiram Wilson & the schools among the runaways in Canada?" He then discusses the difficulty Wilson has had raising funds to support the school. Torrey writes about making a proposition at the upcoming meeting to "refer the whole controversy to a large committee, from both parties in equal numbers, with instructions to report, if possible, some measure of conciliation." He writes about his plan for the meeting and closes the letter by asking Phelps, "What say you brother plotter?" In the postscript, Torrey asks Phelps to "take a little notice" of his wife's eldest brother, who has just arrived in Boston, and introduce him to "good young men."
Author:
Torrey, Charles T. (Charles Turner), 1813-1846
Addressee:
Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847
Date:
[March 21, 1839]
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--United States--History--19th century
Fugitive slaves--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Fugitive slaves--United States
American Anti-Slavery Society
Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847
Torrey, Charles T. (Charles Turner), 1813-1846
Wilson, Hiram, 1803-1864
Places:
Massachusetts > Essex (county) > Salem
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 26 x 21 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/5h740s42r
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
Salem, [Mass.]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
On verso, the delivery address is "Rev. A. A. Phelps, Boston, Mas." It was postmarked with an orange circular stamp but the words are illegible.
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript composed in black ink on white paper. Above the salutation, along the spine edge of the page, the number "61" is written in pencil. On the last page, there are two black ink stains along the fore edge that are visible on both the third and fourth pages. Also along this edge, there is a small hole extending about .6 cm from the side of the page.
Cataloged sgellerman
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
5047981
Call #:
MS A.21 v.9, p.61
Barcode:
39999085504130