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Holograph, signed.It is very kind of "the clique" to insist on Richard Davis Webb crossing the Atlantic. However, though always out of debt, Webb is by no means "riding on the crest of the waves of fortune like Richard Allen." Webb would rather see the abolitionists face to face than Rome or Athens. Webb received from H. C. Wright a letter from Halifax, which was intended for publication. Webb considers the habit of holding oneself before the public apt to result in a style neither natural or pleasing. He regrets that Charles C. Burleigh is not to go abroad. Webb has only a slight acquaintance with the Howitts. Webb comments about the Howitts: "I take them to be an upright, independent, well-minded pair." He thinks that William Howitt is quick tempered, and perhaps apt to take offence. Webb says: "I greatly like his wife." Webb thinks "they have been entrapped by [John] Saunders to their very great annoyance and pecuniary loss." Richard Davis Webb judges John Saunders to be a rascal from the fact that William Howitt has published statements about John Saunders that would entitle him to large damages for libel if they could be refuted. As Harriet Martineau remains the only contributor of note to the People's Journal, Webb suspects that she takes Saunder's side. Richard D. Webb hears that Ralph Waldo Emerson intends to be in England in a few weeks and encloses an invitation for Emerson to stay with him. It has seemed better not to...

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