Letter

From Bradford,Yorkshire, to Mr Stevenson. He was grateful for the note and the 'very mournful' account of Mr Walton - 'such attacks can only end one way'. J R wrote to him yesterday, not knowing of his affliction. He was grateful also for the account of Benfleet [Essex] in the Methodist Recorder - it was very good. J R's son [Henry Owen?] has written to say that he will keep it as a 'curiousity'. One of the articles in the same issue is by J R's son, namely the one on the evangelical alliance. J R thinks that the young man has a gift for writing although not equal to that of Stevenson. By the way, J R preached his first sermon in 1825, not at Worsley [near Manchester] which was in fact the third or fourth sermon that he delivered, but rather in a cottage in the Strangeways district of Manchester. The sermon was from the "love of Christ constraineth is". He will write to Mr Walton. .