Letter from Elizur Timothy Washburn, Hartford, Connecticut, to Amos Augustus Phelps, [1827] Nov[ember] 30

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Elizur Timothy Washburn, Hartford, Connecticut, to Amos Augustus Phelps, [1827] Nov[ember] 30
Description:
Elizur Timothy Washburn writes to Amos A. Phelps regarding news of his thanksgiving. He also writes that he hasn't heard news from any of their classmates. He hasn't "done much at Hebrew et, as it has been the beginning of our term, and many things to attend to here have interrupted my studies more thsan they will hereafter. I have just begun the Bible." He speaks of the duties of "every student of Theology..to remember for whom he intends to labour, & in what cause he expects to engage." He also discusses business excitement in the city as well as his news of buying himself a library, stating that he "purchased about a hundred volumes lately."
Author:
Washburn, Elizur Timothy, 1805-1831
Addressee:
Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847
Date:
[November 30, 1827]
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--Religious aspects--Christianity--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Christianity
Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847
Washburn, Elizur Timothy, 1805-1831
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 26 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2v23xj061
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
Hartford, Connecticut
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript composed in black ink on white paper. The top of the page in the same ink writes "Deaf & Danish Asylum, on Lord's Hill next day after Thanksgiving-i.e. Nov.30 with "1827" written in brackets in pencil.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
5069804
Call #:
MS A.21 v.1, p.44
Barcode:
39999085423760