Letter from Henry Brewster Stanton, New York, to Amos Augustus Phelps, [April 17 1840?]

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Henry Brewster Stanton, New York, to Amos Augustus Phelps, [April 17 1840?]
Description:
In this letter to Amos A. Phelps, Henry B. Stanton discusses an arrangement made between himself and a committee (presumably of the American Anti-Slavery Society) to raise money by selling books in order to pay the society’s debts to Stanton and enable him to attend the conference in London. He says this arrangement gives Phelps’s committee “a rare opportunity to get a good depository at a low price.” He then confides Phelps with the reason why his approaching marriage needs to be kept in secrete: the parents of the bride-to-be is against the marriage primarily because Stanton is abolitionist, and Stanton and the lady plan to get married and sail to England together because she does not want to be left alone with her people who are opposing the marriage.
Author:
Stanton, Henry B. (Henry Brewster), 1805-1887
Addressee:
Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847
Date:
[April 17, 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
Stanton, Henry B. (Henry Brewster), 1805-1887
American Anti-Slavery Society
Massachusetts abolitionist
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 32 x 38 cm.
Permalink:
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Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
New York
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Date of production from annotation on manuscript.
On verso, the delivery address is "Rev. Amos A. Phelps, Boston, Mass."
Identifier:
4750914
Call #:
MS A.21.11.38
Barcode:
39999032923367