Priscilla Johnston to Anna Gurney and Charles Buxton, about her father's return home and immediate plunge into work, including a private meeting at Lushington's, at which he succeeded in having several points accepted that he had expected the Tories to have reject, namely, the sending out of four lecturers, the sending of seed and agriculturalists to Africa with the expedition, giving permission to Trotter to start a model farm or garden there if the opportunity arose, and the subdivision of the committee into seven sub-committees to deal with the several points at hand, n.d.
She observes that Buxton could not do all the things needed but she believed providence would supply the aid needed. Samuel Gurney was being most zealous in the cause, the Anti-Slavery Convention was then sitting, and Buxton had paid it a visit the previous day but concluded that they were a wild lot. Some women delegates from America were present, though it had been agreed that they would not be allowed to speak. Finally, she writes that they were sending letters to Aix for them to pick up and to the Hoares to forward to them and that they had just received their letters from Ancona of 3 Jun.
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