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Clarkson/Folder 1-5/Doc 6
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- 7 November 1789 (Creation)
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1p paper
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Bought from R. Myers & Co., 1949.
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Sent during TC's visit to France, assuring him that he is quite right not to have put himself to trouble to translate his last communication into French, since the writer has perfectly understood it, with a little help. He acknowledges on behalf of the Abbe Sieyes and himself, the two pictures which Clarkson sends, with which the writer is already familiar. (1) This design inspired Lubersac with a great hatred of the traffic in human kind as much as that traffic has degraded it. He invites Clarkson with an unnamed friend, to a modest dinner next Monday at 4 p.m. (1) The picture was evidently the slave ship picture which Clarkson circulated in profusion in Paris and from which Mirabeau had a model made for his dining room table (See Clarkson Biography, pp. 57-8).