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sorbed very much by her interest in favour of the Blacks. 

 She spends a great deal in the circulation of anti-slavery 

 publications, and she has herself written or compiled a little 

 pamphlet for the benefit of those who are not sufficiently 

 interested in the subject to seek for information among the 

 many books that are written. We have established a 

 Ladies' Society at Newcastle, but we don't meet with much 

 success among the higher gentry. The set below them (our 

 Rue Basse) is much more impressible." A quaint evidence 

 of the family's interest in the cause is shown by the fact 

 of various little manuscript books of journals and collections 

 of prayers, amongst the Maer records, being bound in the 

 disused covers of Anti-slavery pamphlets. 



