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[CLAPHAM SECT]. A collection of seventy-eight letters addressed to William Taylor Money (director of the East India Company, Member of Parliament for Wotton Bassett from 1818 and a prominent member of the Clapham Sect) mostly by leading Evangelicals, 1808-1830, approximately 202 pages, 8vo and 4to, address panels, seals (5 letters incomplete, lacking first or last pages, a few tears and splits in folds, occasional discolouration).
The correspondence includes autograph letters signed by: MERLE D'AUBERGNE, Jean Henri (1794-1872, Swiss historian of the Reformation). 2 letters, 1826 and 1829, on spiritual matters and mutual friends, 8 pages, 4to; MORE, Hannah (1745-1833). 6 letters, incompletely dated [1823-1824], in the first rejoicing that a church is to be built at Ferney (near Geneva) where 'Candide had attempted to dethrone [God]'; referring to the family of 'the illustrious but unhappy Madame de Stael [...] No one more admired her transcendant talent than myself tho' I thought it my duty to bear my testimony against her principles'; later commenting on mutual evangelical friends including Daniel Wilson and Wilberforce, on spiritual matters, and her health, 10 pages, 4to; MACAULAY, Zachary (1768-1838), 2 letters, 1823 and 1824, referring to the anti-slavery campaign and the 'hope of carrying a motion damnatory of slavery', on East Indian sugar, family matters, 4 pages, 4to; SIMEON, Charles (1759-1836, leader of the Evangelical Revival), n.d. [1821], saying that he has been asked to contribute 100 to a new church near Gloucester, and asking Money to act for him, as his name is 'too notorious', with a letter in third person, and an inscribed copy of a tract, 3 pages, 8vo; WILBERFORCE, William (1759-1833), eight letters (one partly secretarial and one incomplete), 1819-1825, commenting affectionately on their friendship, his difficulty in writing and reluctance to use an amanuensis, his proposed retirement (in 1825) from Parliament, a petition by the newsmen, friends in Battersea and other matters, 21 pages, 8vo and 4to; WILBERFORCE, Samuel (1805-1873), describing a journey from Italy to Brussels which has been faciliated by Money's introductions, 3 pages, 4to; WILSON, Daniel (evangelical Bishop of Calcutta), three letters, 1820 - 1821, about appointments to chaplaincies and declining to give dinners during Lent, 8 pages, 8vo and 4to; WOLFF, Joseph (1795-1862, missionary and traveller), commenting on his recent journey ('stripped by pyrates I arrived at Salonica') and plans to proceed 'to Timbuktoo from thence if the Lord pleases to Cape of Good Hope, Bombay to pay you a visit', and to his efforts on behalf of a Roman Catholic missionary, 2 pages, 4to.
Other correspondents include Edward Pellew, Viscount Exmouth, soliciting support for protegs (6 letters and 2 incomplete), George Canning, Sir John Malcolm (3), Charles Manners-Sutton (5), Charles Grant (philanthropist, chairman of the East India Company), Benjamin Bloomfield (soldier and diplomat, 8), Admiral Gambier, Robert Grant (Governor of Bombay, 9), James Mackintosh (5), Robert Jocelyn, Earl of Roden (7), mostly on patronage and on matters relating to the East India Company, and missions in India.
The correspondence includes autograph letters signed by: MERLE D'AUBERGNE, Jean Henri (1794-1872, Swiss historian of the Reformation). 2 letters, 1826 and 1829, on spiritual matters and mutual friends, 8 pages, 4to; MORE, Hannah (1745-1833). 6 letters, incompletely dated [1823-1824], in the first rejoicing that a church is to be built at Ferney (near Geneva) where 'Candide had attempted to dethrone [God]'; referring to the family of 'the illustrious but unhappy Madame de Stael [...] No one more admired her transcendant talent than myself tho' I thought it my duty to bear my testimony against her principles'; later commenting on mutual evangelical friends including Daniel Wilson and Wilberforce, on spiritual matters, and her health, 10 pages, 4to; MACAULAY, Zachary (1768-1838), 2 letters, 1823 and 1824, referring to the anti-slavery campaign and the 'hope of carrying a motion damnatory of slavery', on East Indian sugar, family matters, 4 pages, 4to; SIMEON, Charles (1759-1836, leader of the Evangelical Revival), n.d. [1821], saying that he has been asked to contribute 100 to a new church near Gloucester, and asking Money to act for him, as his name is 'too notorious', with a letter in third person, and an inscribed copy of a tract, 3 pages, 8vo; WILBERFORCE, William (1759-1833), eight letters (one partly secretarial and one incomplete), 1819-1825, commenting affectionately on their friendship, his difficulty in writing and reluctance to use an amanuensis, his proposed retirement (in 1825) from Parliament, a petition by the newsmen, friends in Battersea and other matters, 21 pages, 8vo and 4to; WILBERFORCE, Samuel (1805-1873), describing a journey from Italy to Brussels which has been faciliated by Money's introductions, 3 pages, 4to; WILSON, Daniel (evangelical Bishop of Calcutta), three letters, 1820 - 1821, about appointments to chaplaincies and declining to give dinners during Lent, 8 pages, 8vo and 4to; WOLFF, Joseph (1795-1862, missionary and traveller), commenting on his recent journey ('stripped by pyrates I arrived at Salonica') and plans to proceed 'to Timbuktoo from thence if the Lord pleases to Cape of Good Hope, Bombay to pay you a visit', and to his efforts on behalf of a Roman Catholic missionary, 2 pages, 4to.
Other correspondents include Edward Pellew, Viscount Exmouth, soliciting support for protegs (6 letters and 2 incomplete), George Canning, Sir John Malcolm (3), Charles Manners-Sutton (5), Charles Grant (philanthropist, chairman of the East India Company), Benjamin Bloomfield (soldier and diplomat, 8), Admiral Gambier, Robert Grant (Governor of Bombay, 9), James Mackintosh (5), Robert Jocelyn, Earl of Roden (7), mostly on patronage and on matters relating to the East India Company, and missions in India.