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Letter from Amos Augustus Phelps, Boston, to James Gillespie Birney, Jan 29. 1840

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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.On verso, the delivery address is "J. G. Birney Esq., New York." It is postmarked, "BOSTON, JAN 29."Amos A. Phelps writes to James Gillespie Birney regarding a deposit of money made in the Suffolk Bank in Boston, which Mrs. [Wisner?] can retrieve at Andover. He then asks Birney “what the status quo of your committee is since the meeting & what you intend to do.” Phelps says the account on the Emancipator is hard to decipher. He asks for Birney’s “interpretation.”
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