Harned, William

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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.On verso, the delivery address is "Rev. A. A. Phelps, Care of Prof. C. D. Cleveland, Clinton Street, Philada." It was postmarked on Mar. 23 in Philadelphia, Pa.In this letter to Amos A. Phelps, William Harned provides the latter with a copy of the notice of Bangor Missionary Convention. Harned also discusses other matters such as the Baptist convention in Brooklyn, notices of Mr. Torrey’s death on the Herald, a resolution passed by the Woburn Association that is sympathetic to the course taken by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions respecting slavery, and Lewis Tappan’s request that Harned and Phelps make the [American and foreign anti-slavery] Reporter profitable enough to support itself.

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