[Letter to] My Very Dear Amelia

Resource Information

The work [Letter to] My Very Dear Amelia represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Internet Archive - Open Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, http://bibfra.me/vocab/marc/Manuscript, Books.

Label

[Letter to] My Very Dear Amelia

Creator

• Thompson, George, 1804-1878

Contributor

• Chesson, Amelia Thompson

Recipient

• Chesson, Amelia Thompson

Subject

• Manuscripts
• Letters
• Abolitionists -- Great Britain -- 19th century -- Correspondence
• Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Abolitionists -- United States -- 19th century -- Correspondence
• Chesson, Amelia Thompson -- Correspondence
• Thompson, George, 1804-1878 -- Correspondence

Genre

• Correspondence
• Manuscripts
• Letters

Language

eng

Summary

George Thompson writes his daughter Amelia stating that he was prevented from immediately responding to her letter received the previous day owing to a "nervous affliction" affecting his writing hand. Thompson provides Amelia with an update on the activities and health of the immediate family, and announces that while he has something weighty to convey, he will save this news for another occasion

Member of

• Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) William Lloyd Garrison Correspondence (1823-1879)

Cataloging source

BRL

Index

no index present

Literary form

letters

Nature of contents

dictionaries