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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript composed in black ink on white paper. Below the first line is the number "117" written in pencil. At the top of the page next to the date writes in the same black ink "declines $10-."Ichabod Washburn writes to Amos A. Phelps requesting to enroll his name as a life member of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society but declines to serve as a Vice President. He writes "I have to say that I feel a delicacy in accepting so important trust forth from a consciousness of my inability to perform its duties, and from the importance of the responsability [sic] which it involves, Therefore permits me to decline its acceptance and receive the enclosed as my initiatory fee. I shall always feel it is my duty cheerfully to do any thing in my power to promote the objects of the Society." He enclosed $10 in the letter.

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