The title page of the book proclaimed that it was not merely a narrative of the author's travels. It began Two Voyages to Sierra Leone during the years 1791–2–3, In a Series of letters, by Anna Maria Falconbridge, and went on To which is added, A letter from the Author to Henry Thornton, Esq. M.P. And Chairman of the Court of Directors of the Sierra Leone Company. Then followed the quotation “If I can hold a Torch to others, / ’Tis all I want – – ”. It was published in London, and “Printed for the author, and sold by different booksellers throughout the kingdom”, price five shillings.

Mrs Falconbridge had an ally in Carl Bernhard Wadstrom, another Swedenborgian Swede (see footnotes 73, 79) who, also in 1794, published An Essay on Colonization, a vast tome replete with numerous appendices on various colonization projects, including a detailed account of Sierra Leone. He too had a grievance against the Company, for not giving any financial support to the widow and children of his countryman Nordenskiöld, who had died in its service, or any remuneration to the botanist Afzelius. To Clarkson and DuBois he gave high praise, adding -