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Will reply to Clarkson's letter shortly. Will forward the pamphlet for publication and look out for notices.

Furnishes Clarkson with information he requested with regard to the Abolition of Slavery Act. Also informs Clarkson that he has taken Mr Soul's place as the secretary of the British and Foreign Anti Slavery Society.

Announces his pleasure that with the arrival of Mr. Foulerton [Fullerton], junior he has been able to make the journey to London, but excusing himself for reasons of fatigue from making the journey to Ipswich to see Clarkson. He spoke with Gregoire before he left, who was very anxious to be remembered to Clarkson, and Vincent attaches a writing of Gregoire's to this letter [not here]. He discusses in detail the disordered condition of Haiti as relayed by Foulerton, which he does find reassuring.

Vincent has just read in the Paris Gazettes that the former Queen of Haiti and her two daughters are at present at Playford Hall, and he considers it typically worthy of Clarkson to have discharged a debt which lies rather more at the door of a government [i.e. than at that of a private individual]. He hopes that his letter (i.e. the one following) finds them still at Playford, and will be glad to learn that they receive with especial grace ('avec quelque distinction') his protestations of devotion.

Pamphlets relating to the slave trade written by Thomas Clarkson, William Wilberforce and others.

Material relating to events held at St John's College Cambridge, Westminster Abbey, and Cambridge University Library commemorating the 150th anniversary of Clarkson's death. Also material relating to the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade.

Newspaper cuttings detailing anti-slavery society campaigning; reports and letters concerning the slave trade and slavery; papers used in Parliamentary reports on the slave trade; copies of the 1807 Bill signed and annotated by Thomas Clarkson; road maps.

Pamphlets, books and articles on Clarkson and Wilberforce produced by the Wisbech and Fenland Museum, Hull Museum etc.; first day cover stamps commemorating the 150th anniversary of Wilberforce's death.

Acknowledges a parcel sent by the letter. He describes the importance of the example given by Clarkson's efforts, as wielding a moral force superior to that inculcated by principles alone. He comments on the importance of the personal interests of those concerned in advancing a great cause, and the hypocrisy of a motion for the freedom of Negroes being put before the National Assembly, which is preoccupied with its own ideas of liberty.

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).