Autograph letter signed : Weston, to Walter Bagot, 1788 June 17.

Saying that he has not written before now because the bad weather affected his eyes; noting that "Slavery, and especially Negro Slavery because the cruellest, is an odious and disgusting subject"; explaining that he finds it hard to write about slavery: "when man is active to disturb there is such meanness in the design and such cruelty in the execution that I both hate and despise the whole operation, and feel it a degradation of poetry to employ her in the description of it. I hope also that the generality of my countrymen have more generosity in their nature than to want the fiddle of Verse to go before them in the performance of an act to which they are invited by the loudest calls of Humanity"; congratulating him on "the recovery of [his] youngest child from innoculation"; mentioning the death of his uncle.