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Mary Anne Rawson's The Bow in the Cloud (1834): A Scholarly Edition

Revision narrative: Montgomery revising Townley

Montgomery's mention of 'D. Townley' is wrong -- it is James Townley's article. (D. Townley is his wife Dinah, who also published pieces in the anthology.) Rawson did follow Montgomery's suggestion to change the wording in his piece, although she did use his suggested title. Townley's original phrase 'Divine Providence, however, on the retirement of the former Parliamentary Friend of Negro emancipation from public life, raised up Buxton, the honourable and zealous successor of his laborious career in the British Senate, and where his great, and truly patriotic efforts, supported, latterly, by the Ministers of the Crown, and several talented Noblemen and Commoners, have eventually been crowned with triumphant success, by the act of 1833.----'

Townley titled his piece 'Revelation Subversive of Slavery', and Rawson's fair copy did not have a title (English MS 414/74). The published version is titled 'Abolition of Slavery'.

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Letter from James Montgomery to Mary Anne Rawson (English MS 414/81)

Sheffield
Jan 18 1834
My dear Friend
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, that
~~that~~
I have hardly heart or stength to do anything right.

Kind regards to all at Wincobank
from their friend & yours J. Montgomery

[addressed:]
Mrs M. A. Rawson
Wincobank
Hall

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Revelation Subversive of Slavery (English MS 414/74)