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{"value"=>"<p>Moncure Conway (1832-1907) was an American abolitionist, writer and minister. First of the Methodist faith, he then converted to Unitarianism before abandoning that to become minister of the South Place Ethical Society in London. Letters to Moncure Conway were purchased with funds from the Margaret Maloney fund. The bulk of the letters (15) are from Wendell Phillips. Phillips writes to introduce Richard Hinton, an abolitionist journalist who was coming to England to study labor issues, and Martin Milmore, an artist who was going to Rome to sculpt the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument for the Boston Common. He also writes Conway to keep him abreast of changes, and divisions, in the American abolitionist community as well as to counsel Conway on his feelings of isolation and censure from it. There is one letter from Phillips to Conway's wife, Ellen. There are two letters from W.H. Furness, one discussing Unitarian minister Robert Collyer's move from his Chicago church to the Community Church in New York City and a second on the death of his wife, Annis. There is one letter from George Thompson welcoming Conway to England when he first arrived.</p>"}
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