Letter from Simeon Smith Jocelyn, New Haven, to Amos Augustus Phelps, Aug 21. 1833

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Simeon Smith Jocelyn, New Haven, to Amos Augustus Phelps, Aug 21. 1833
Description:
In this letter to Amos A. Phelps, Simeon Smith Jocelyn expresses his pleasure at the fact that Phelps’s lectures are soon to be published. He then says he has to decline to sign Phelps’s circular, only because he believes the document does not adequately describe the harm of the colonization society to the abolitionist cause.
Author:
Jocelyn, Simeon Smith, 1799-1879
Addressee:
Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847
Date:
August 21, 1833
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
Jocelyn, Simeon Smith, 1799-1879
American Colonization Society
Extent:
1 leaf (2 p.) ; 26 x 20 cm.
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Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
New Haven
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Identifier:
4721639
Call #:
MS A.21.3 (29)
Barcode:
39999032918268