Identity area
Reference code
Clarkson/Folder 1-5/Doc 45
Unique identifier
GB 275 Clarkson/Folder 1-5/Doc 45
Title
Text (in the same hand as, and with, Item 44) of Egion's quittance in French
Date(s)
- 11 September 1814 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1p 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
'Today, 11 Sept 1814, Mr. Thomas Clarkson sent me 585 francs to pay Mr. Egion for printing his work Les Desavantages Politiques de la Traite de Negres (1) the said day and year; [signed] Gregoire 'ancien Eveque' [i.e. under the old regime] of Blois'. (1) No doubt, Essay on the Impolicy of the African SlaveTrade (1788, but reprinted in 1814: see Clarkson's Biography p.128).