Copy letter from Samuel Hague's house in Leeds, Yorkshire, to William Wilberforce in London re Coke's personal wish to establish a mission in India, now that his wife is dead and he has handed over many of his duties in the Methodist Church.
He has not received a reply to his letter to Lord Liverpool, offering himself as an Anglican bishop in India. He is not only prepared to be fully reconciled with the Church of England, but is willing to use his private income of £1,200 per annum to cover his travelling expenses to India and to make charitable donations.
He enjoys good health, despite his age, and found during his visits to the West Indies that he was suited to living in a hot climate. Moreover he is friendly with several influential people, including Lords Bathurst, Sidmouth and Castlereagh, and asks Wilberforce if he should write to try to obtain their support.
He asks Wilberforce to keep this approach secret.
[Publication record: Robert Isaac and Samuel Wiberforce, The correspondence of William Wilberforce, ii, 256ff.]