From Calvert Street, [Norwich]. As Gregson has discovered today that a parcel is being sent to [her brother-in-law Henry] Francis who is in London and that he can get a franck there, she is taking the opportunity of writing a few lines.
Gregson is now recovering from a sharp attack of her old complaint. Spiritual matters are discussed. She has been downstairs about three weeks and hopes to have a little meeting at home this afternoon.
Has Tooth ever read the life of William Carvasso? [published in 1836]. If not, she should - he was a man of true faith.
In a postscript, she mentions that her sister [Ann Francis] sends her regards. Gregson has a true friend in the Superintendent minister's wife who lives very near and whose company is a real blessing.
Note
- William Carvasso (1750-1834) was born at Mousehole in Cornwall. Converted as a young man through the influence of his Methodist sister, Carvasso joined the society at Mousehole and became an enthusiastic and highly successful class leader. His own society increased its membership from eleven to nearly two hundred. Carvasso retired from business to devote himself to full-time evangelism for over twenty years. A strong advocate of the doctrine of perfection, he also served as a society steward and chapel trustee. The biography of Carvasso, published the year after his death, gives a great deal of insight into the work of a class leader and was very popular in Methodist circles. Carvasso's son Benjamin (1789-1854) joined the Wesleyan itinerancy and was a pioneer of the Methodist mission in Australia. Source: Dictionary of Evangelical Biography, edited by Donald Lewis (1995)