Identity area
Reference code
Clarkson/Folder 1-5/Doc 2
Unique identifier
GB 275 Clarkson/Folder 1-5/Doc 2
Title
Autograph letter, signed, in French, from Brissot de Warville and Etienne Claviere, to Joseph Woods (1) and James Phillips, from Paris
Date(s)
- 13 October 1787 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
2p paper
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Bought from R. Myers & Co., 1949
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Acknowledges the resolution passed by the English Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, to associate them in this work for humanity as their correspondents in France. They undertake to form an equivalent French Society with the same objective, which will keep in contact with its English counterpart, and give appropriate French postal addresses. They warn that given the different make-up of French politics, the method will be different and progress perhaps slower.
(1) Bookseller and publisher of Clarkson's essays.