Letter from James Montgomery to Mary Anne Rawson (English MS 414/81)
Jan 18 1834
Would "Records of Slavery" be a
suitable title for D. Townley's article?
The sentence respecting Buxton certainly does
read awkwardly, but it is constructed lyity
-- at least according to many indifferent
precedents. After the word "Senate,"
you might omit the "and," place a semicolon
after the former word, and read thus
"Senate; where eventually, his great" &c. Then remember
to strike out a "eventually" in the last line
??? of the paragraph. -- In the "voice
from &c" I have ventured to restore the
verbal reading in the English Version of
our Saviour's most beautiful and tender
address, -- which, indeed, is more impressive
and expressive too, than the substituted
form of "me, ye who are weary," in which "me"
and "ye," followed by so many vowels, make
the reader almost whistle in pronouncing
them. I may probably trouble you to
enclose a few lines for me to Mr Townley
but I am so unwell, and so spiritless, thatthat
I have hardly heart or stength to do anything right.
from their friend & yours
Wincobank
Hall