Letter from John Scoble, Birmingham, to Amos Augustus Phelps, 24 July 1840
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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.On verso, the delivery address is "Revd. Amos A. Phelps, Boston, Unites States." It was postmarked on July 24, 1840 in Birmingham, and in August in New York.In this letter to Amos A. Phelps, John Scoble requests Phelps’s assistance in obtaining the protest presented by Wendell Phillips at the closing meeting of the antislavery conference in London in June. The document is to be under the custody of the Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, however, Phillips, sent it to Garrison instead of returning it to the Society as he promised, in order to have it published in the Liberator.
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