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Alexander Blair on Seizure of the Morning Star, The Chronicle, 4 March 1777
Robert King to Vassa 26 July 1767
Dr. Charles Irving to Vassa 15 June 1776
Matthias MacNamara to Anglican Bishop of London 11 March 1779
Thomas Wallace to Anglican Bishop of London 13 March 1779
Rev. Peckard to the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade 26 May 1790
Thomas Walker to Friends of Justice and Humanity 23 July 1790
Dr. Brown, Rev. Ja. Wilkinson, Wm Shore, Esq, Rev. Edw. Goodwin, Samuel Marshall, John Barlow to the Friends of Humanity in Sheffield 20 August 1790
Rev. G. Walker, F. Wakefield, John Morris, T. Bolton, Joseph Rigsby, Thomas Hawksley, Samuel Smith, S. White, M.D. John Wright, and J. Hancock to Friends of Humanity in Nottingham 17 January 1791
Thomas Atwood Digges to Mr. O’Brien 25 December 1791
William Eddis to Rowland Webster 25 October 1792
John Sykes, R.A. Harrison Esq., Thomas Clarke, Jos. R. Pease Esq., and William Hornby Esq. to the Friends of Humanity in Hull 12 November 1792
William Langworthy to William Hughes, Esq. 10 October 1793
Vassa to Robert Lowth Lord Bishop of London March 1779
Vassa to the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury 12 May 1787
Vassa to Lord Hawkesbury 13 March 1788
Vassa to Queen Charlotte 21 March 1788
Vassa to the Lords Spiritual and Temporal 24 March 1789
Vassa to the Reader June 1792
Vassa to Josiah Wedgwood 21 August 1793
Vassa to Peter Peckard undated
Vassa to Robert Lord Bishop of Dublin 30 May 1791
Alexander Tillock to John Montieth, Esq. 5 May 1792
Possible Attribution to Vassa, The Cabinet, 17 January 1795
Granville Sharp to Jemima Sharp 27 February 1811
Rev. Dr. J. Baker to Vassa 14 May 1792
Vassa to Robert Lord Bishop of Dublin 30 May 1791
Granville Sharp to Dr. J. Sharp 23 June 1787
Sons of Africa to Granville Sharp 15 December 1787
Officers and Commissioners of his Majesty’s Navy to Vassa 16 January 1787
Susannah Atkinson to Vassa 29 March 1791
Josiah Wedgwood to Vassa 19 September 1793
Excerpt from Granville Sharp’s Journal regarding Vassa 19 March 1783
"The Shipwreck of a Slave Ship," Poem by John Lowe, 1 January 1803
Reference to “Gustavus I,” The Scots Magazine, 1 June 1789
Certificate of Emancipation 11 July 1766
Parliamentary Debate on the Capture of the Morning Star 25 February 1777
Excerpt of Poetry from the Interesting Narrative mid-1770s
Charles Crawford to Friends of Humanity, Observations upon Negro Slavery, 1790
Reference to Vassa in William Gifford’s The Baviad a Paraphrastic Imitation of the First Satire of Persius, 1791
Thomas Hardy to Rev. Mr. Thomas Bryant 8 March 1792
Morning Star Debate Parliamentary Debates 25 February 1777
Advertisement for a Dutch version of The Interesting Narratives..., Leydse Courant, 12 November 1790
Advertisement for The Interesting Narrative, Göttingische Gelehrte Anzeigen, 1790
Review of The Interesting Narrative, Göttingische Anzeigen von Gelehrten Sachen, 26 April 1790
Review including Vassa among remarkable English language authors, 1795.