Henry Crabb Robinson, 2 Plowden Building Temple, London, to Lord [Henry] Brougham, [no address], 29 April 1839. 

My dear Lord Brougham –

       I am obliged by your note, which is however just what I expected I have altered the passage according to the fact – There was still a misapprehension as you lent the text – The request to have the books returned (or rather demand) came from Mr C himself not me – It seems to me to omit all better to leave out all attention whatever to their having had the books[1], it being not material, but if you think otherwise Then the passage might stand 

Those minutes having remained in his custody he had furnished them to the authors: But he demanded the redelivery of them And they were sent back

But my own op impression is that this is not wanted – However you will decide.

       I purpose calling on you tomorrow morning before twelve to take your opinion on the expediency of annexing to this new edition a copy of Mr Wilberforce’s Letter to Mr Clarkson on the receipt of the History which Mrs Clarkson has lately found –

                                    faithfully your’s

                                                  H. C. Robinson

2 Plowden Building Temple

29th April 1839

No address. 

No postmark. 

Endorsed: 1839 / Mr H C. Robinson

Text: Brougham Papers, MS. 23.555, University College University of London. The 'books' mentioned here and in some other letters are the Abolition Committee Minute Books which came into the possession of Clarkson and later to Crabb Robinson, who later donated them to the British Library, where they still reside (see Fair Minute Books, Committee of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, British Library ADD. MS. 21255).