Sep 25, 2008 - Sale 2155

Sale 2155 - Lot 34

Price Realized: $ 360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
PHILLIPS, WENDELL. Autograph Letter Signed, to James B. Congdon of New Bedford, encouraging him to continue supporting the anti-slavery cause despite recent misgivings. Written on blank verso of the printed report of the 1844 Annual Meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society. 1 page, 4to, with integral address leaf. Np, 17 June [from report: 1844]

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"I venture to solicit your attention to the inclosed address, though I recollect your halfprotesting vote at our recent convention. But differences of opinion will not separate us from the slaves' cause, nor diminish. . . . I send you this relying on your active cooperation with them in the great movement in which you and they have so long labored."