[ILLUSTRATIONS]
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| 1. WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, M.P. FOR THE COUNTY OF YORK | Frontispiece. |
| (From a picture by J. Rising.) | |
| 2. WILBERFORCE OAK | Facing page[ 17] |
| (At the foot of an old tree at Hollwood, after a conversationwith Pitt, Wilberforce resolved to give notice inthe House of Commons of his intention to bring forwardthe Abolition of the Slave Trade.) | |
| 3. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM PITT | Facing page[ 79] |
| (From a plate taken from an original drawing by the lateMr. Sayers.) | |
| 4. BIRTHPLACE OF WILLIAM WILBERFORCE AT HULL | Facing page[ 163] |
| 5. SAMUEL WILBERFORCE, AGED 29 | [245] |
| (From a drawing by George Richmond.) |
[LETTERS FROM PITT]
LETTERS FROM PITT.
THE first of Pitt's letters to Wilberforce is "perhaps the only one extant that is racy of those rollicking times when the 'fruits of Pitt's earlier rising' appeared in the careful sowing of the garden beds with the fragments of Ryder's opera hat."[2]