Autograph letter signed by Abolition / Anti-Slavery League secretary Robert Smith about a meeting involving Henry Clarke Wright (1797-1870)

Original letter. [WRIGHT, Henry Clarke]; SMITH, Robert. Autograph letter signed about arrangements for a public meeting. Manchester, 20 November 1846. One page, 8vo. Paper toned with foxing and aging marks. Letter laid on card with old mounting marks to the reverse, but the contents legible. Good. A previous owner has written on the card below the letter identifying information 'Secretary to the Anti Slavery League.'  Smith thanks the recipient for helping arrange a meeting at Wakefield and says he will write again when they are within a fortnight of the town. He notes that H. C. Wright "has a good name for his lectures on Peace". Contemporary reports identify Robert Smith as secretary to the Anti-Slavery League, engaged in organising public meetings and touring English towns in late 1846. H. C. Wright (Henry Clarke Wright, 1797-1870) was an American abolitionist and non-resistant peace lecturer active in Britain during the 1840s. He worked with the more radical, Garrisonian (William Lloyd Garrison) wing of the anti-slavery movement in America. A rare letter about the Anti Slavery League's public speaking tour in 1846 and its transatlantic links with this well known American abolitionist speaker. . Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1846.