Wilson Armistead was a Leeds businessman, abolitionist, and writer. He was active in the Leeds Anti-Slavery Association and wrote and edited works opposing slavery.
Wilson Armistead
The Quakeress Bride
in Tales and Legends of the English Lakes. 1891. EP Publishing Ltd., 1976.
He rejoiced when the approach of evening allowed him to escape, and to accept the invitation of his friend, Charles Manson, to walk with him in the Regent's Park. Charles, who was some years his junior...was a youth of sanguine temperament - one of those who love to view things on their brightest side.
Edward Fletcher has decided that it's time he got married, but has spent a sleepless night worrying about it. Charles, who hasn't been told of this momentous decision, chatters on regardless.
The fineness of the weather, the number and gay appearance of the company in the Park...all tended to enliven him, and animated his converse. Scarcely an equipage rolled by, or a horseman passed them, without furnishing him with an occasion for an approving or satirical remark. Edward, however, seemed not to heed his observations...He passed in silence the various natural and architectural beauties of the place, on which he was accustomed to dilate. The fine Doric portico, and massive grandeur of the Colosseum, the splendid facade of Cumberland Place, the innumerable curiosities of the Zoological Gardens, and the rural loveliness of the wooded lake, were alike unheeded.