the Cunard office.
They at first said that they did not book till the steamer came; which
was not the fact. When I called again, they said they knew the steamer
would come full from Boston, and therefore we had "better try to get to
Liverpool by other means." Other mean Yankee excuses were made; and it
was not till an influential gentleman, to whom Mr. Francis Jackson, of
Boston, kindly gave us a letter, went and rebuked them, that we were
able to secure our tickets. So when we went on board my wife was very
poorly, and was also so ill on the voyage that I did not believe she
could live to see Liverpool.

However, I am thankful to say she arrived; and, after laying up at
Liverpool very ill for two or three weeks, gradually recovered.

It was not until we stepped upon the shore at Liverpool that we were
free from every slavish fear.

We raised our thankful hearts to Heaven, and could have knelt down,
like the Neapolitan exiles, and kissed the soil; for we felt that from
slavery

"Heaven sure had kept this spot of earth uncurs'd,
To show how all things were created first."

In a few days after we landed, the Rev. Francis Bishop and his lady
came and invited us to be their guests; to whose unlimited kindness and
watchful care my wife owes, in a great degree, her restoration to
health.

We enclosed our letter from the Rev. Mr. May to Mr. Estlin, who at once
wrote to invite us to his house at Bristol. On arriving there, both
Mr. and Miss Estlin received us as cordially as did our first good
Quaker friends in Pennsylvania. It grieves me much to have to mention
that he is no more. Everyone who knew him can truthfully say--

"Peace to the memory of a man of worth,
A man of letters, and of manners too!
Of manners sweet as Virtue always wears
When gay Good-nature dresses her in smiles."

It was principally through the extreme kindness of Mr. Estlin, the
Right Hon. Lady Noel Byron, Miss Harriet Martineau, Mrs. Reid, Miss
Sturch, and a few other good friends, that my wife and myself were able
to spend a short time at a school in this country, to acquire a little
of that education which we were so shamefully deprived of while in the
house of bondage. The school is under the supervision of the Misses
Lushington, D.C.L. During our stay at the school we received the
greatest attention from every one; and I am particularly indebted to
Thomas Wilson, Esq., of Bradmore House, Chiswick, (who was then the