Letter from John Riland to Mary Anne Rawson

Scope and Content

Letter from John Riland, curate of Yoxall, Staffordshire, to Mary Anne Rawson declining to contribute to The Bow in the Cloud . He had published on anti-slavery before, including his influential Memoirs of a West-India Planter. Published from an original MS. With a preface and additional details . An interesting letter talking about his issues with the 'evangelical class' and Reform Church and the seriousness of some abolitionists.