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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.On verso, the delivery address is "Rev. A. A. Phelps, Boston, Mass." It was postmarked with an orange circular stamp but the words are illegible.It is stamped, "PHELPS MSS." in the head- fore corner of the first page.Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript composed in black ink on white paper. Above the salutation, the number "82" is written in pencil. There are also four small, evenly-spaced, perforations running along the spine edge of the page. On the third page, there is about a red seal along the fore edge and a brown circular spot in the middle of the page. On the last page, in the tail- fore corner, the phrase "MS.A.21.8.86" is written in pencil.Cataloged sgellermanCharles Turner Torrey writes to Amos A. Phelps about establishing a new newspaper as the official organ of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. He proposes questions Phelps should send out to abolitionists across the state to test the prospects for this new paper. He also comments that the idea is growing in Andover and "that some of the warmest Garrisonites in Andover are now in favor of it." Torrey also discusses politics and the recent elections, stating in the postscript, stating the Whigs "are now making ridicule of our whole movement to cover up their own want of principle."

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