Letter from Amos Augustus Phelps, Boston, to James Gillespie Birney and Joshua Leavitt, Feb 4. 1840

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Amos Augustus Phelps, Boston, to James Gillespie Birney and Joshua Leavitt, Feb 4. 1840
Description:
Amos A. Phelps urges James Gillespie Birney to come to Boston to represent the New Organization ([the Massachusetts Abolition Society]) at a legislation hearing. He suggests that, if Birney cannot come, he should send [Henry] Stanton or Joshua Leavitt. Phelps says Leavitt can “take up in his cool, statistical, lawyer-like way, the subject of the foreign slave trade... ” He stresses the importance of a skillful presentation of the New Organization’s arguments in favor of ending the foreign slave trade.
Author:
Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847
Addressee:
Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873
Addressee:
Birney, James Gillespie, 1792-1857
Date:
February 4, 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
Massachusetts Abolition Society
Birney, James Gillespie, 1792-1857
Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 25 x 40 cm.
Permalink:
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Place of origin:
Boston
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
On verso, the delivery address is "James G. Birney, or Rev. Joshua Leavitt, New York." It is postmarked, "BOSTON, FEB 5."
Identifier:
4664822
Call #:
MS A.9.2.13.19
Barcode:
39999063806390