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Abraham Lidden Cox writes to William Lloyd Garrison "in the direct performance of an official duty" and invites him to stay at his family home when he comes to New York. Cox insists that his home would be "the perfect convenience you might make of it" and "above all, no one can give you a fuller welcome than we." He also discusses the "failure of the great meeting for Colonizing in Phila[delphia]" and calls it "a favourable omen." Cox then describes "the business of his letter," which is to give to Garrison "two resolutions of the Ex[ecutive] Com[mittee] of the Am[erican] Anti-Slavery Society." The first resolution invites George Thompson and Charles Stuart to come to the United States "to labour in the cause of Emancipation" with the Society, while the second resolution states that the Secretary for Foreign Correspondence must submit all correspondence to the Executive Committee before it is mailed. Cox adds that the Society wanted "to say to you, unofficially, that the Society must not be in any way implicated in respect to salary, and that you would manage that in your correspondence better than we by any resolution to that effect."