Identity area
Reference code
Wilberforce/29
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Title
Date(s)
- 1797 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
3 pages; paper
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Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Purchased, together with item 30, from Bernard Quaritch for £1020 in June 2017.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Wilberforce, writing in the third person, returns ‘another proof’ of his Practical View of the prevailing religious System of professed Christians (1797) to his publishers, but has spotted an error in earlier sheets. ‘He forgot to strike out a note at some little distance back[...] containing these words – “of true Love it may be affirmed as of Eloquence materia alitur, motibus excitatur &c &c” – If it be not too late, Mr W– will thank Messrs C. & D. if they will expunge the note’. The change is not worth reprinting the whole run for, ‘but if a few copies of that sheet only are struck off. Mr W- begs Messrs C. & D. will stop the farther impressions of that sheet, & send him word how many have been struck off’, so that he may decide how to proceed.