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• 1 2023-08-01T11:12:49+00:00 Letter from Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen to Mary Anne Rawson (English MS 414/33) 8 Letter from Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen to Mary Anne Rawson, with suggested titles for the volume: 1. 'Rights and Wrongs; or, The Negro's Albion. A Collection of original contributions in Prose and Verse'; 2. 'The RainBow in the Cloud; A Collection of original pieces(?) upon Negro Slavery'; 3. 'The Star after a Storm(?); A Collection of original pieces(?) in Prose and Verse on Negro Slavery and Emancipation'. plain 2024-09-09T12:06:18+00:00
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  Froxfield, near Woburn, 12th month 9th, 1833
   

  I now transmit the contribution which I last week
  gave thee reason to expect, and which if it meets thy approval, I shall be happy.
  I designd it for the close of the volume, perhaps for the concluding piece;
  but of this thou will be the best judge. If there are any that refer to
  the future prospects of the Negro, now that the emancipation-bill is past,
  with a more ardent feeling exultation, they might perhaps start up the
  book better - but I could not but express somewhat [?] our disappointment
  on providing[?] such low ground taken by those who carried the bill through Parliament
  in the arguying of the great question; and the base tone of policy, and interest that
  was perpetually used and pleaded there.--

  I shall deem it an honour to have a proof sent for my revision by the pinter when set
  up in type; which I will take care not to detain more than one post. I
  shall be very glad to see the little Volume make its appearance, and I
  do not doubt that thy benevolent intention of thereby prolonging the
  sympathy that has so justly been excited for the Slave, will be realised
  I have busied my thoughts a little upon a Title, but I do not know that I
  have succeeded in suggesting a suitable one. It should be sensible & yet [?]ing,
  if it is to refer to be Past as well as Future, it must almost necessarily
  be a little fanciful--but I would not have it too recondite. I subjoin what
  here occurred to me: and in the hope that they may strike us something or
  other that may be judged appropriate, I remain with much esteem,
  in which my wife unites.

  yours very faithfully

  J. H. Wiffen

  
  My Brother, I am sorry to say finds it impossible to write anything.

  1. Rights and Wrongs;
  or,
  The Negro's Album.
  A collection of original contributions
  in Prose and Verse, &.
  Edited by M. A. Rawson.

  2. The Rainbow in the Cloud;
  a collection of original pieces
  upon
  Negro Slavery.
  -
  -

  3. the Star after the a Storm;
  a collection of original pieces
  in Prose and Verse
  on
  Negro Slavery and Emancipation.
  -
  -

  Was man ordained the slave of men to toil,
  Yoked with the brutes, and fettered to the soil,
  Weighed with a tyrant's balance with his gold?--
  No! Nature stamped us in a heavenly mold!
  She bade no wretch his thankless labour urge,
  Nor, trembling, take the pittance and the scourge!
  Campbell
  
  London
  
  Printed for -------
  
  1834 & It should be dated the new year