This notice is advertising an abolition meeting. Although the main abolition committee was in London, it was not long before there were abolition meetings held all over the country. When Thomas Clarkson was travelling around Britain to promote the cause, he suggested, in each place he visited, that they set up their own local abolition committee and start their own petitions. The main committee (The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade) was well organised and occasionally printed hundreds of copies of a document called, ‘A Letter to our Friends in the Country, to inform them of the state of the Business’. This early form of newsletter kept activists in all parts of the country up to date with news about the campaign to end slavery.