| Description | Is honoured to be ranked amongst his correspondent's friends; he is sorry to say that it is not in his power to follow his inclinations and he must therefore 'say no'; his sister is doing well and the child is better
[George Horatio Rocksavage, later 2nd Marquis of Cholmondeley (1792-1870), MP for Castle Rising 1817-1821; could refer to Wilberforce's quest in 1821 to find a younger person to take over the leadership in the Commons of the campaign for future measures for the emancipation of slaves: he actually asked Thomas Fowell Buxton, MP] |