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Regarding the General Assembly session of Rhode Island, which Perry attended with an (anti-slavery) petition. "We are much engaged at this time in getting up a [antislavery] convention for the eastern section of this State to be held in Willimantic [Connecticut]." The friends in Pawcatuck, Connecticut, raised fifty dollars for the American [Anti-Slavery] Society, and funds from friends in England helped save the "National Anti-Slavery Standard" from folding.

Freed woman requests loan of fifty dollars for one year; "I am about to enter on an important business, which will bring me in a large sum of money but I cannot commence without a considerable sum to set out with." Her master taught her how to earn a living, and that if he had survived, she never would have left his family. Writes that Coues believes that "all colours have an equal right.."

Offers news regarding brothers Dougherty, Mahan, Morgan, and Parsons. Includes mentions of Theodore Weld. This letter is written on a 2-page printed circular letter from C. Stewart Renshaw "to the Friends of the Colored Race," requesting benevolent donations for his proposed missionary activity in Jamaica. He states that the two hindrances to "civilization, education, morals, and religion" among freed slaves are "native preachers" and rum.

Anger over conditions of colonization in Liberia, missionaries at the root of problems in Liberia; "Those Ministers of Religion as you are pleased to call them must be Stripped of the means they have of setting an example of indolent leisure before our Colonists..." This will negatively influence them. Ladies attended by boys and girls"affect the style and ape the manner of the their former masters"--which Sheridan believes is an evil.

Discusses work with his church and their disputes with him, comparing them to "some patients [who] dislike the medison and find fault with the Doctor and would follow their own notions." Notes church members not wanting to have records of their meeting with him to discuss disagreements, and Elders helping him to set up meetings. Advises his son on negotiating his anti-slavery stance and his relationship with his church. "Be verry cautious in all you say and do on the Abolition subject give your enemies no chance to take advantage of anything But plead the cause of the slave on all proper occasions but keep united among yourselves." Includes a copied letter from Nathan Chapman to Deacon Harvey Edward, dated January 19, 1842, regarding his hesitation to condemn slaveholding. Comments on disputes within the church surrounding slaveholding. Worried about church leaders facing pressure to condone slavery in order to gain members, and wishes they would settle disputes "on bible principals." Urges the deacon to plead "the cause of the oppressed and urging the church to come out against sin," hoping that he does not "regard your connexion with the slaveholder at the south of more consequence than the fellowship of your brethren at home."

Final page of a letter. Writes of the dissolving of strong bonds, casting blame on the current debt repudiation crisis. Comments on slavery and its hypocrisy.

Summons to Jonathan Page for spreading rumors"falsely and maliciously" about Maria J. Kimball: that she had illicit intercourse with a black man, had been impregnated, then traveled to Boston for an abortion. The document extols her character throughout, though she has been"held up-exposed and brought into public infamy..." and also liable to be prosecuted for the crime of fornication.

Exchanging enslaved people to clear his debts from 1841 of $2,093.55. Includes "one negro woman named Pleas and her child together with her future increase, one boy named Henry and one named George." Includes signed certification that the mortgage was settled by William Williams, Clerk.

Recalls meeting Rogers, editor of the Herald of Freedom, some years previous; she looks up to him as her anti-slavery "father." Mentions the building of a Temperance Hall and a letter published in the newspaper that describes the"native power of the negro race" asking"could white men have so toiled day and night for fifteen long years?" Describes hearing Mr. Peabody preach about the responsibility of Northerners to end slavery.

Miller received several publications in the mail: The Perfectionist and Salvation from Sin (a Witness Extra). Mention of [John Humphrey] Noyes. S. S. Miller, a doctor, described Lockland, Ohio, as a good place to practice medicine as Typhus Gravior prevailed and the local "mineralists" were unable to treat the condition. James Boyle [editor of The Perfectionist] visited Lockland to deliver a lecture on slavery. Miller's letter includes a description of the lecture room and ensuing anti-abolitionist violence. Members of the crowd attacked Miller and Boyle during the lecture. The following day, Miller was forced to flee town after a large mob attempted to lynch him.