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E.A. Phelps British Anti-Slavery Society Papers

1845

This folder contains a number of different items with different call numbers. Mss.Acc.1044 is an unsigned draft of a letter from A.A. Phelps to Francis Wayland where Phelps challenges Wayland's "let alone" policy towards slavery. He discusses the power of a moral appeal against slavery, quoting such authorities as Daniel Webster and Duff Green, and arguing that "the great conflict is to be decided by the strength of the moral appeal," of abolitionists and their opponents. Phelps then dicusses Wayland's book, "The Limitations of Human Responsiblity" and the differences between "responsibility" and "obligation." The last page of the letter is on a smaller page, where Phelps reduces Wayland's "thirty six pages of 'Limitations' ... [to] five simple & selfevident truisms!" || Mss.Acc1045-Mss.Acc.1055 are all resolutions expressing sympathy for those persons arrested and imprisoned in America for abetting the escape of slaves. Mss.Acc.1045 is from the Anti-slavery society of Newcastle upon Tyne [England]. Mss.Acc.1046 is from the Torquay [England] Anti-slavery Society. Mss.Acc.1047 is from the Worcester [England] Anti-Slavery Association. Mss.Acc.1048 is from the Youghal [Ireland] Anti-slavery Society. Mss.Acc.1049 is from the Auxiliary Anti-slavery Society [Darlington, England]. Mss.Acc.1050 is from the British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society. Mss.Acc.1051 is from the Exeter [England] Anti-slavery society. Mss.Acc.1052 is from the Carlisle [England] Anti-slavery Society. Mss.Acc.1053 is from the Norfolk and Norwich [England] Anti-slavery society. Mss.Acc.1054 is from the Aberdeen [Scotland] Auxiliary and Aborigines Protection Society. Mss.Acc.1055 is from a public meeting held at Cotherston, Yorkshire, England, chaired by John Chipchase.

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Letter from Alfred Webb, Dublin, [Ireland], to Francis Jackson Garrison, [18]77 [June 5]

1877

Alfred Webb writes to Francis Jackson Garrison stating that his "loss indeed has been very great - your brother's loss." Webb describes a death he witnessed in New York Harbor and asks "Where is Mrs. Chapman?", requesting Garrison send him her address if she is in Paris. He also sends his "love & best wishes to your father" [William Lloyd Garrison] and expresses his hope for Garrison to visit him in Dublin. Before ending the letter, Webb asks for "an address where a letter is certain to be always forwarded to you".

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Letter from Alfred Webb, Dublin, [Ireland], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1878 Nov[ember] 26th

1878

Alfred Webb, son of Richard Davis Webb, writes to William Lloyd Garrison thanking him for "the handsome present you send me - the portrait of George Thompson." Webb discusses the important role of Thompson played in the antislavery movement and he comments that he "feel[s] deeply the gradual passing away of the old guard." He shares his pleasure at seeing Garrison's handwriting, remarking how it reminds him of his childhood, "when we were young & Father & Mother were alive & your picture occupied the centerplace over the fireplace [a]round which we used to sit". In the postscript, Webb asks Garrison to tell his son "Frank, that the Printers Strike has utterly broken down." Webb says he "feel[s] deeply for the men in the mistake they made."

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Letter from Annie Allen, High St[reet], [Dublin, Ireland], to Maria Weston Chapman, Nov'r 17th [- 18th, 18]46

1846

Holograph, signed.

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Letter from Charles Lenox Remond, Dublin, [Ireland], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1841 October 2d

1841

Charles Lenox Remond writes to William Lloyd Garrison that he has "served our cause in Ireland as far south as the city of Cork [and] if I do nothing more I shall not regret my visit." Remond also states that "our cause is fast becoming valuable its dimenstions are being better known [and] appreciated." He closes the letter by asking Garrison to forward the Liberator to "Richd Grubb, Esq." On the second page, Remond asks Garrison to tell "friend Collins [and] Mrs. Chapman" that the "Bazaar Box from Ireland will be a good one."

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Letter from Daniel Otis, South Scituate, [Mass.], to William Lloyd Garrison, August 19th, 1849

1849

Daniel Otis confides in William Lloyd Garrison his disappointment with Father Mathew, and lambasts him for failing to strive for the liberty of American slaves while endeavoring to free those afflicted with the "self-imposed" species of slavery (as Otis refers to alcohol). Otis chastises Father Mathew and others who value popular opinion, influence, and acclaim over principles.

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Letter from Edmund Quincy, Dedham, [Massachusetts], to Samuel May, 1872 July 23

1872

Edmund Quincy writes to Samuel May about their friend, R.D. Webb, saying he is "most truly sorry to hear of his approaching departure, which has probably already occured." Quincy describes his latest correspondence with Webb and declares that Webb "has had a very pleasant as well as useful life, on the whole", including his assistance with the antislavery movement in the United States. He also tells May that he is "spending this beautiful summer ... hoping for the defeat of [Horace] Greeley" in the upcoming 1872 presidential election and asks that May share "any further accounts of Webb" with him.

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Letter from Elizabeth Pease Nichol, Ben Rhydding, [England], to William Lloyd Garrison, July 9 1852

1852

Elizabeth Pease Nichol expresses to William Lloyd Garrison her approval of his recent correspondence, and of the propositions expressed therein. Nichol recounts a trip the previous year to the "Great Exhibition" in London, and declares her contentedness at life in Ben Rhydding. Nichol requests that Garrison give her thanks to Wendell and Ann Terry Phillips for their gift of a copy of the "Liberty Bell". Nichol praises the quality of Richard D. Webb's latest antislavery pamphlet.

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Letter from Ellis Gray Loring to Lydia Maria Child, Tuesday

1832

Holograph, signed with initials.

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Letter from Emilie Ashurst, West Brompton S.W., [London, England], to Richard Davis Webb, [18]72 March 28

1872

In this copy of a letter to R.D. Webb, Emilie Ashurst Venturi discusses the death of Giuseppe Mazzini, calling it "our heavy loss". Venturi contrasts the treatment of Mazzini during his life with his "horribly theatrical ostentatious manner of burial", and says the funeral "would have so revolted him". She also mentions plans to "petrify" his body with the "idea of keeping him above ground and making a procession again to the remains every anniversary" and a petition of Mazzini's English friends to stop it. On page 9, there is a copy of another letter to R.D. Webb from Venturi, dated "April 6, [18]72", where she again mentions her work gathering signatures for the petition to stop the petrification plans for Mazzini. She describes a hut in the cemetery "where the sacred corpse taken from its coffin ... is given over to a materialist surgeon and chemist to desecrate with their horrible experiments."

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