Autograph copy of his letter signed : "Coxwould", to Ignatius Sancho, 1766 July 27.

Replying to Sancho's letter of July 21 (MA 417.10); saying that he "had been writing a tender tale of the sorrows of a friendless poor negro girl, and my eyes had scarse done smarting, when your Letter of recommendation in behalf of so many of her brethren and Sisters came to me -- by [sic] why her brethren -- or yours? Sancho, -- any more than mine"; writing about the concept of race and the connection between different peoples; describing how "one half of the world [uses] the other half of it like brutes, & then endeavour[s] to make 'em so"; promising to try to incorporate the tale he mentioned into the project he is currently working on [i.e. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy]; writing that slavery and oppression based on perceived racial difference "casts, a great Shade upon the world, that so great a part of it, are, and have been so long bound down in chains of darkness & in chains of misery"; congratulating Sancho for having, through diligence and Providence, freed himself from both sets of "chains" and assuring him "I will not forget yr. Letter."