Acc. Angus 169 is a box in the Archives of the Angus Library, Regent's Park College, Oxford, that contains a collection of letters and other material on Robert Hall and John Foster, two giants among Baptist ministers and writers between 1790 and 1840. A typescript of the contents (probably from the 1920s) remains in the box. The contents are the following:

Four letters by Robert Hall (1764-1831): 

1. Robert Hll to a Miss Watkins, 7 May, 1791. 

2.  Robert Hall to Joseph Gutteridge at Camberwell, 22 January 1807.

3.  Robert Hall to Joseph Gutteridge, 19 March 1812 (mentions his laudanum use and comments on Isaiah Birt and the church in Prescot Street, Goodman's Fields.

4. An undated letter by Robert Hall on death of Mrs. Parsons (copy).

5. Robert Hall to Joseph Gutteridge, 23 March 1825 (about an invitation to preach in London).  

What follows these letters is a manuscript titled “A curious account of a Mr. Hall who dined with Mr. Randall on Tuesday 31st Oct., 1804, and who became temporarily insane.” It appears the person who typed the calendar did not realize this “Mr. Hall” was Robert Hall himself.  The manuscript [the hand is not identified, and is dated only by the dates of the occurrence (31 October 1804) but more importantly by the date of the watermark, which is 1803] is the only first-hand account of Hall’s initial derangement in Cambridge in 1804.  Other accounts appear in J. W. Morris and Olinthus Gregory, but none with this kind of detail. For the complete text of this manuscript with detailed notes and background, see Timothy Whelan,  “‘I am the Greatest of the Prophets’: A New Look at Robert Hall's Mental Breakdown, November 1804,” Baptist Quarterly 42 (2007), 114-126.

Three letters by John Foster:

1. A note by Foster dated December 1823, requesting a ticket to hear a sermon by Edward Irving/

2. Foster to S. Holdsworth, London printer and bookseller, May 1839, concerning Foster's work about Humboldt.

3. An undated letter to an unknown recipient, in which Foster writes that he is leaving Bourton for Bristol and will be preaching at Downend.  

Also in this box is a note by John Ryland, Jr., and a letter discussing Charlotte Bronte.