Letter from Alanson St. Clair, West Boylston, to Amos Augustus Phelps, 29th July 1837
Description:
In this letter to Amos A. Phelps, Alanson St. Clair requests certain publications that are needed in order to refute some charges made by some clergymen against the American Anti-Slavery Society and Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. He then reports that the petitions Phelps sent to him have been distributed, and gives a list of people to whom they were sent. He also discusses the merits of a few promising abolitionists.
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
On verso, the delivery address is "Rev. A. A. Phelps, No 25. Cornhill, Boston, Mass."
It is stamped, "PHELPS MSS."