Theodora Phelps, letter, to Eleazar Wheelock, March 1769
Date1769-03
abstractLetter from Theodora Phelps to Wheelock asking to borrow an enslaved person, March 1769.
RepositoryRauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College.
Call NumberMS 1310: Eleazar Wheelock Collection, Box 19, Folder 769240.1
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Reverend and Honored Sir
Inform that I send Salley to your house to know
if you will Lend Dinah, I Intended to Come
myself but Indisposition of Body is Such with
me that [illegible: I] am not able to Leave home the
affairs of our Debts are at present Such that
there is no Danger of any attachment
that well Touch her Collin Pilkins affair
is Settled on good Terms Horsfords Case
has had a hearing but is adjourned 'til
the week after next, but by the Judgement
of them who are to be Regarded it Looks
prosperous on our Side and that Mr. Phelps is not
much mistaken in his former if
upon the whole Sir [illegible: ] you think it unsafe
to Send her we must Rest until Better
Security can be had
Theodora Phelps
Duty to Honored mama and
Love to Brothers and Sisters