In this letter to Amos A. Phelps, Lewis Tappan discusses Phelpśs failing health. He then talks about the good work Mr. Whipple is doing with the ́American Missionarý in spite of the trouble Charles Steward Renshaw is making, and the progress made with the Washington paper. He reports on the protest of the Executive Committee of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society against the Evangelical Alliance on the subject of American slavery, and the two meetings held to discuss the result of the London convention to allow slaveholding. He also talks about the legislatures of New York and other states making resolutions against the annexation of territory with slavery.