Keep and William Dawes toured England in 1839 and 1840 gathering funds for Oberlin College in Ohio.

The next Sunday he preached in the Congregational Church in Blandford, Mass., and immediately received an invitation to settle there, which he accepted.

[4] Keep was the person who cast the deciding vote in 1835 that allowed black students to enter Oberlin College in Ohio.

[6] Both Keep and Dawes are credited with helping to start the collection of African Americana at Oberlin College which inspired other writers.

[8] Keep appears in the large painting by Benjamin Robert Haydon which is on permanent display at London's National portrait gallery although he is obscured by other convention attendees.

[7] The people that Keep corresponded with, John Scoble, Joseph Sturge and George Thompson, and who welcomed them in London are clearly in the picture.

The rebuilding was funded by Keep's granddaughter who commissioned Normand Patton to design Keep Cottage to sleep 80 women with room for 110 to dine.