Letter from Amos Augustus Phelps, Boston, to [John F.?] Emerson, April 2. 1838

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Amos Augustus Phelps, Boston, to [John F.?] Emerson, April 2. 1838
Description:
A. A. Phelps writes to D. H. Emerson to recommend his brother in law, Moore, as a new minister for Emerson’s society. He then discusses the “collision between the state and national Anti-Slavery societies.” Phelps says that Emerson’s County Board favor the position of the national societies but he fears attempts will be made in the upcoming county convention in New Bedford to undo it. Phelps considers “the Parent Committee [which means the national society?] in the right.” He says the State Board want to crush the Massachusetts Abolitionist [which is a periodical?] “by shutting out of the state the agents of the Parent Society” and to make the Massachusetts Society anti-orthodox and promulgate non-resistance, no-government, etc.. He criticized Garrison and the Board. A note beneath the letter [by Maria Weston Chapman?] criticizes Phelps for putting forth against “his brethren of the board,” and addresses the accusation of anti-orthodox.
Author:
Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847
Addressee:
Emerson, John F.
Date:
April 2, 1838
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
Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society
American Anti-Slavery Society
National anti-slavery standard
Revolution (New York, N.Y.)
Extent:
2 leaves (4 p.)
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/m900pp31t
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
Boston
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
On verso, the delivery address is "Dea. Emerson, (Teacher), New Bedford, Mass." It is postmarked, "BOSTON, MS., APR 2."
Note on the legacy card catalog: “This letter, with ... the section about Mr. Moore deleted, was apparently used after Phelps’s resignation from the Board of the Massachusetts society, as a testimony of his intrigue.”
A piece of paper and text is missing on the 3rd page of the letter.
Identifier:
4664549
Call #:
MS A.9.2.10 p.20
Barcode:
39999063805251