Letter from Amos Augustus Phelps, Boston, to James Gillespie Birney, Jan 29. 1840

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Amos Augustus Phelps, Boston, to James Gillespie Birney, Jan 29. 1840
Description:
Amos A. Phelps writes to James Gillespie Birney regarding a deposit of money made in the Suffolk Bank in Boston, which Mrs. [Wisner?] can retrieve at Andover. He then asks Birney “what the status quo of your committee is since the meeting & what you intend to do.” Phelps says the account on the Emancipator is hard to decipher. He asks for Birney’s “interpretation.”
Author:
Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847
Addressee:
Birney, James Gillespie, 1792-1857
Date:
January 29, 1840
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
Birney, James Gillespie, 1792-1857
Extent:
1 leaf (3 p.) ; 25 x 40 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/m900pv86f
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
Boston
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
On verso, the delivery address is "J. G. Birney Esq., New York." It is postmarked, "BOSTON, JAN 29."
Identifier:
4664775
Call #:
MS A.9.2.13.16
Barcode:
39999063806382