Autograph letter signed : Boston, to William Endicott, 1845 July 31.

Suggesting that John Campbell Cluer ("our Scottish friend") speak to a gathering celebrating West Indies Emancipation Day at Danvers tomorrow, since he is not needed at similar gatherings in Dedham, Waltham, and Lowell; writing "I think he will be quite an acquisition for the occasion; and as it is British West India emancipation (would it were American also!) that is to be celebrated to-morrow, it will not be 'foreign interference' for him to have a hand in the affair"; discussing payment for Cluer; describing him as in need of assistance ("as a stranger and an exile") and able to lecture on "any of the reforms of the day"; sending with Cluer a letter from Hon. Stephen C. Phillips of Salem, which "gallantly commits him to the advocacy of the anti-slavery cause as paramount to all other political considerations," to be read at the celebration; sending his good wishes for the occasion and his hopes that "a staggering blow will be given to our slave system."