Letter

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 133 PLP 28/13/13
  • Former Reference
      GB 135 PLP 28/13/13
  • Dates of Creation
      27 Aug 1805
  • Physical Description
      1 item

Scope and Content

Copy letter from Raithby Hall, Lincolnshire, to the Missionary Committee of Finance and Advice giving details of Coke's intended itinerary —Boston, London, Bath and Bristol.

Reference is made to a disciplinary affair involving Messrs Burdsall and Beaumont. Coke emphasizes the need to have discipline or see Methodism break up.

He details the amount of money recently donated for the missions and gives the names of donors. Coke states that he has drawn up an address to the East India Company and sent it to Major Sandys.

[Original in the archives of the Methodist Missionary Society , reference Home C box 1.]