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Title

Letters from Clarkson

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MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 18 / C107 (items 4-75, 78-81, 83-92, 94-138, 140-179, 182-189, 190-191, 194-196)

Summary

Includes:

(item 15) 'An Address to Thomas Clarkson, Esquire, Founder of African Emancipation' (printed) from Henry Ibbotson, Secretary to the Provisional Committee for forming the Madagascar and East Africa Company, 30 Jun. 1841

(item 109) "Thomas Clarkson Esq., and The American Colonization Society" (manuscript) by John Scoble, 22 Sep. 1840

(item 186) "Reply to the Assertions of the Clergy of the Southern States of America that Abraham was the Founder of Slavery" (manuscript) by Clarkson, undated

(item 190) 'Memorial' to the Earl of Aberdeen, Secretary of State for the Foreign Department, and to the other members of her Majesty's Government (printed) from John Murray and William Smeal, Secretaries, on behalf of the Committee of the Glasgow Emancipation Society, 25 Mar. 1844

(item 191) circular appealing for subscriptions to meet the loss on the new edition of Clarkson's work on slavery, undated

(items 194-196) letter, with newspaper cuttings, from Edward Clarkson, recent Editor of The Essex Times, to the Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1841