[printed form letter:]
18, Aldermanbury,
Friday Evening, half-past 7 O’clock
May 10, 1833
Sir,
Various rumours are now in circulation as to the plans to be proposed by Government on Tuesday next, respecting the Slave Population. Whether any of such plans be really the plan to be proposed, is not at present ascertained; but you are most EARNESTLY entreated not in any way, to give your approbation or support to any plan which is not founded on the principle of IMMEDIATE EMANCIPATION, and that without imposing any cost or burthen on the Negro.
This is urged upon you the more anxiously, lest you should be requested to take part in any previous conference on the subject.
We have the honor to be, Sir, Your very obedient servants,
Tho. Pringle
Secretary to the Anti-Slavery Society.
John Crisp
Secretary to the Agency Anti-Slaver Society.
MOST URGENT AND IMMEDIATE
ON THE SLAVERY QUESTION.
W H F Talbot Esqr M P
29 Albemarle Street <1>
[envelope:]
M.P.
W. Henry Fox Talbot Esqre
[added in pencil in another hand:]29
Albemarle Street
London
[added on verso in ink in another hand:]
Not known in Albemarle Street Picadilly
[two illegible signatures]
Notes:
1. WHFT lived at this London address, just down the street from the Royal Institution, for half of April and the whole of May, 1833.