Letter

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 133 PLP 28/16/7
  • Former Reference
      GB 135 PLP 28/16/7
  • Dates of Creation
      7 Feb 1808
  • Physical Description
      1 item

Scope and Content

Copy letter from Harrogate, Yorkshire, to Robert Carr Brackenbury at Raithby Hall, Lincolnshire, thanking him for his gift of £20 towards the missions, and his subscription to Coke's History of the West Indies, the first volume of which he hopes to complete shortly.

Coke is confident that the 'awful times' in which they are living herald the second coming of Jesus Christ.

The persecution of the Society in Jamaica is described, including the imprisonment of Mr Gilgrass, and -the recent death from fever of Mr Firth and his wife. Mr Knowlan's health is also poor. Coke has received his copies of Miss Ward's poems.

[Original deposited as part of the Dodsworth Bequest, Wesley's Chapel, City Road, London.]