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Copy of letter from Amos Augustus Phelps, Boston, to William Whiting Newell, Apl. 15. 1843

1 pp 1843

Amos A. Phelps writes to William Whiting Newell expressing his displeasure at Newell’s negligence in the case a bill issued by the Evangelist to Phelps that Newell had promised to forward to Mr. Butler.

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Copy of letter from Amos Augustus Phelps, Boston, to [John F.?] Emerson, April 2. 1838

1 pp 1838

A. A. Phelps writes to D. H. Emerson to recommend his brother in law, Moore, as a new minister for Emerson’s society. He then discusses the “collision between the state and national Anti-Slavery societies.” Phelps says that Emerson’s County Board favor the position of the national societies but he fears attempts will be made in the upcoming county convention in New Bedford to undo it. Phelps considers “the Parent Committee [which means the national society?] in the right.” He says the State Board want to crush the Massachusetts Abolitionist [which is a periodical?] “by shutting out of the state the agents of the Parent Society” and to make the Massachusetts Society anti-orthodox and promulgate non-resistance, no-government, etc.. He criticized Garrison and the Board.

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Copy of letter from Amos Augustus Phelps, E. Boston, to William Bradford, Jan. 20. 1843

1 pp 1843

Amos A. Phelps writes William Bradford about the Evangelist subscription to his mother, Clarissa Tyron. Although Phelps wrote to discontinue the subscription when his mother moved to live with him in East Boston, she found out that the paper had been delivered to her old address. Phelps wants to settle the account with the paper.

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Copy of letter from Amos Augustus Phelps, New York, to Rufus Anderson, March 9, 1835

1 pp 1835

A.A. Phelps writes to Rufus Anderson about the article Anderson published in the Missionary Herald, entitled “Extract from a communication of Doct. Hall to the Maryland Colonization Society.” Supplying information that “clashes somewhat” with Doctor Hall’s evaluation of Cape Palmas as a potential colony for the free black, Phelps asks Anderson to publish this information. The letter is followed by Phelps’s private note to Anderson asking to publish the preceding part of the letter.

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Copy of letter from Boston Female Anti-slavery Society, Boston, to Charlotte Phelps, April 12th 1834

1 pp 1834

In this letter to Charlotte Phelps, the wife of Amos A. Phelps, Mary Grew, the corresponding secretary of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, expresses her regret in having lost Mrs. Phelps as its member and valuable officer due to her moving away from Boston. She informs Mrs. Phelps of the decision of the society to make her (Mrs. Phelps) a lifetime members of the New England Anti-Slavery Society as a token of esteem.

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Copy of letter from Charlotte Phelps, Wrentham, to Mary Grew, May 10th 1834

1 pp 1834

In this letter, Amos A. Phelps’s wife, Charlotte, writes to Mary Grew of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society for making her a life member of the New England Anti-Slavery Society. She expresses her interests in the society and praises she has heard given to it.

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Copy of letter from Joshua Emery, Boston, June 14, 1842

1 pp 1842

Joshua Emery Jr. thanks Phelps for his work in Weymouth. He sends a set of Dr. Emmons’s works as a token of gratitude. On the verso of this letter is a copy of Amos A. Phelps’s reply to it, in which Phelps thanks Emory.

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Copy of letter from Samuel May, Boston, to Henry Wadsworth Carter, March 31, 1860

1 pp 1860

May replies to a complaint by Carter that Sallie Holley treated him like the "slave or tool of the managers of [the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society]."

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Copy of letter from Samuel May, Geneva, to George Armstrong, Oct. 9 1843

1 pp 1843

May indicates he was pleased to learn of the interest of the English Unitarians in American slavery, and was much gratified by their address to the American Unitarian clergy. He complains of the former refusal of "The Christian Examiner" to print anti-slavery articles and commends articles on slavery by Reverend Andrew Preston Peabody. May rebukes the American Unitarians for doing nothing, with the exception of Doctors William Ellery Channing and Charles Theodore Follen. He complains that the Unitarian ministers, including Channing, condemn slavery and abolitionism with equal fervor.

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Copy of letter from Samuel May, Leicester, [Mass.], to Charles Hudson, Feb. 17. 1842

1 pp 1842

May states that his letter transmits five petitions to Congress from the inhabitants of Leicester. Accompanying the letter is a memorandum that outlines the number of legal voters and non-voters supporting the petitions. Seven petitions are listed in the memorandum, although only the last five are noted "to Congress": Railroad petition, Black Law petition, Amendment of the Constitution, Remonstrance against Texas, No new slave state, Hayti, and Slavery and the Slave Trade in D.C. and the Territories and between states.

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Copy of letter from Samuel May, [Leicester, Mass.?], to William Henry Channing, [Oct. 17, 1858?]

1 pp 1858

May argues that Oliver Johnson's remarks to the effect that Reverend Channing should have spoken against slavery on his return from Europe was not unjust or disrespectful. May complains that Channing is no longer associated with the abolitionists and that Channing has given "much countenance and aid" to Frederick Douglass.

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Copy of letter from Sarah Parkman Shaw Russell to Samuel May, [June 21,] 1872

1 pp 1872

Handwritten transcription, in the hand of another person. Whereabouts of original manuscript unknown.

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Copy of letter from Amos Augustus Phelps, Boston, to William Whiting Newell, Apl. 15. 1843

Copy of letter from Amos Augustus Phelps, Boston, to [John F.?] Emerson, April 2. 1838

Copy of letter from Amos Augustus Phelps, E. Boston, to William Bradford, Jan. 20. 1843

Copy of letter from Amos Augustus Phelps, New York, to Rufus Anderson, March 9, 1835

Copy of letter from Boston Female Anti-slavery Society, Boston, to Charlotte Phelps, April 12th 1834

Copy of letter from Charlotte Phelps, Wrentham, to Mary Grew, May 10th 1834

Copy of letter from Joshua Emery, Boston, June 14, 1842

Copy of letter from Samuel May, Boston, to Henry Wadsworth Carter, March 31, 1860

Copy of letter from Samuel May, Geneva, to George Armstrong, Oct. 9 1843

Copy of letter from Samuel May, Leicester, [Mass.], to Charles Hudson, Feb. 17. 1842

Copy of letter from Samuel May, [Leicester, Mass.?], to William Henry Channing, [Oct. 17, 1858?]

Copy of letter from Sarah Parkman Shaw Russell to Samuel May, [June 21,] 1872