[Letter to] Mr. Phelps, Dear Sir [manuscript]

by: Crocker, [L.?], Jr; Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847, recipient

Publication date: 1841

Topics: Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847, Antislavery movements, Abolitionists

Publisher: Barnstable

Collection: bplscas; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Associates of the Boston Public Library / The Boston Foundation

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

Holograph, signed

Author name on the legacy card catalog was "Crocker, Joshia?, Jr."

Title devised by cataloger

On verso, the delivery address is "Mr. A A Phelps, Editor of the Massachusetts Abolitionist, Boston."

L. Crocker answers Amos A. Phelpśs request for information regarding the origin and general character of the people associated with Nonresistance and the Transcendentalists. Crocker discusses a case of a man with the name of Daniel Whittimore whom he considers to be of a dubious character, as well as the religious origin and history of the group