1799 WILLIAM WILBERFORCE. Important 7.5pp Letter from Leigh Richmond to William Wilberforce! VellumThis is a wonderful and historically important piece of ephemera. Legh Richmond [1772 1827], writes here in the blossom of his career. This is apparently THE introductory letter between Wilberforce and Richmond, and it occupies a whopping 7. 5pp of extensive handwritten content. They would go on to become such close friends in the cause of the poor, working class, women, children, and the abolition of the slave trade that Richmond would name his son
acting as Secretary for the Baptist Missionary Society
the forfeiture is no more than the law directs – from every view of the subject
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A fascinating
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[which has traditionally been thought to refer to the young Joseph Benson] regarding the use of “intoxicating liquor” and urging him against it
To which is Subjoined
Both Williams and Overton produced works in 1644 and 1645 reproving the Westminster Assembly [of which the present is Overton's] for their having now embodied the bullying
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Johnson was Jeremiah Lanphier's Assistant
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What a wonderful Great Awakening period letter