LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY MOURNS WILBERFORCE
Unique document, 1p., 4to., London, [May, 1834?], a hand-written contemporary copy of a speech given at a meeting of the London Missionary Society to commemorate the passing of William Wilberforce. The speech, delivered by "Thomas Burton", recounted Wilberforce's plea before death that slavery would be repealed in England, and the subsequent passing of that very legislation shortly after. Lot includes an inlaid print of an engraving of an African or West Indian man holding a book and dressed in the English finery of the day, possibly Toussaint L'Ouverture. Age toned with additional pink hue, minor foxing, with an unfortunate doodle of black ink to the right of the print.