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First proclamation gives a general exhortation to attribute the deliverance from slavery to God, and to cultivate religion and virtue and the laws of the Republic; detailed orders to improve the moral instruction and conduct of the troops with respect to not molesting the civil population. Second proclamation announces the complete evacuation of St. Dominique by the English and émigrés, a testimony to his own loyalty to France and the Republic. He recalls the army once more to render thanks to God, and to obey divine and civil laws to help restore tranquility to the country. Detailed requirements for religious observance are laid down.

Briefly discusses the contents of Treaty of Washington regarding fugitive slaves.

Papers relating to the abolition of the slave trade and slavery; papers relating to the Republic of Haiti and the Kingdom of Haiti; papers relating to the Clarkson Family, including Catherine Clarkson, and friends; and miscellaneous papers including those relating to recent research into Clarkson's work. The majority of the papers date from Clarkson's lifetime.

A chronological description in Thomas Clarkson's hand ?

Discusses a portrait of Thomas Clarkson in the process of being painted by the recipient.

Musgrave writes in response to a letter from Clarkson requesting that he should advise the Committee of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade of anyone who could give evidence on the slave trade. The bearer of this letter, a sailor called Peacock, had been first mate on a slave ship for the last four years and had been in Africa, South America and the East and West Indies. He wishes them success in their "generous exertions in favor of the oppressed". Peacock clearly delivered the letter, as it is endorsed in red ink by Granville Sharp on receipt.

List, typed, of the published works of Thomas Clarkson. Annotations showing copies held in St John's College Library

Gives information on William Wilson (1). (1) Mentioned in correspondence with Clarkson.

Documents from other sources.

Document, typed, giving a brief biography of William Wilberforce and further information relating to him. Produced by the Church Missionary Society on the Bicentenary of the birth of Wilberforce. Includes a letter from B. D. Nicholls of the Church Missionary Society to 'The Editor,' dated 1 June 1959