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Letters and other documents of William Wilberforce (1759-1833), Minister of Parliament and slavery abolitionist. Wilberforce's long association with the Wesley family began in the 1780s. After Charles Wesley's death in 1788, he served as administrator of a pension for the widowed Sarah, who survived another 36 years. Most famously, the dying John Wesley wrote his last recorded letter to Wilberforce, urging him to continue his fight to abolish the slave trade (letter is held by Drew University).