Letter from John Scoble, Birmingham, to Amos Augustus Phelps, 24 July 1840

Item Information

Title:
Letter from John Scoble, Birmingham, to Amos Augustus Phelps, 24 July 1840
Description:
In this letter to Amos A. Phelps, John Scoble requests Phelps’s assistance in obtaining the protest presented by Wendell Phillips at the closing meeting of the antislavery conference in London in June. The document is to be under the custody of the Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, however, Phillips, sent it to Garrison instead of returning it to the Society as he promised, in order to have it published in the Liberator.
Author:
Scoble, John, 1799-1877
Addressee:
Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847
Date:
July 24, 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
Scoble, John, 1799-1877
Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 24 x 38 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/m900qq60n
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
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Place of origin:
Birmingham
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
On verso, the delivery address is "Revd. Amos A. Phelps, Boston, Unites States." It was postmarked on July 24, 1840 in Birmingham, and in August in New York.
Identifier:
4751011
Call #:
MS A.21.11 (89)
Barcode:
39999032922351