1785-1789

John Ryland, Jr., [Northampton], to John Rippon, London, undated (c. 1785). 

Richard Price, Newington Green, to John Rippon, 12 April 1785. [copy]

Jane Attwater, Bodenham, to Caroline Attwater Whitaker, Bratton, [Friday], 27 May [1785].

Thomas Dunscombe, Bampton, to John Rippon, London, 28 May 1785.

Thomas Dunscombe, [Broughton], to John Rippon, London, undated [composed in mid-1780s, as Rippon was preparing his Selections, which appeared in 1787].

Caleb Evans, Downend, to Mary Steele, Broughton, [Tuesday] 19 July 1785.

Thomas Steevens, Colchester, to John Sutcliff, Olney, 10 November 1785.    

Caleb Evans, Bristol, to [Samuel] Jackson, London, 14 December 1785.

Mary Steele, Broughton, to Mary Scott, Milborne Port, Somerset, [Saturday] 14 January [1786].

Caleb Evans, Bristol, to Mary Steele, [Broughton,] [Saturday] 11 March 1786.

Caleb Evans, Bristol, to Mary Steele, Broughton, [Thursday] 27 April 1786.

Robert Hall, Bristol, to John Ryland, Jr., Northampton, 15 June 1786.

Caleb Evans, Bristol, to Mary Steele, Broughton, [Sunday] 10 September 1786.

Mary Steele, [Broughton,] to Dr. [Samuel] Stennett, London, [Wednesday] 11 October 1786.

James Hinton, Oxford, to Edmund Botsford, Bethel, near Charleston, South Carolina, 8 November 1787.

Caroline Whitaker, Bratton, to Jane Attwater, Nunton, [Friday], 28 December 1787.

John Sutcliff, Olney, to John Rippon, London, 28 February 1788 [fragment].

Mary Scott, Milborne Port, to Richard Pulteney, Blandford, 23 April 1788.

Mary Scott, Milborne Port, to John Taylor, Manchester, [Wednesday] 30 April 1788.

Theophilus Lindsey, London, to Russell Scott, Portsmouth, [Saturday] 14 June 1788.

Robert Robinson, Chesterton, [near Cambridge], to Mary Hays, Gainsford Street, 15 July 1788.

George Dyer, Cambridge, to Benjamin Edwards, Independent Minister, Northampton, 22 August 1788.

Robert Robinson, Chesterton, [near Cambridge], to Mary Hays, Gainsford Street, Southwark, 26 November 1788.

Samuel Medley, Liverpool, to John Rippon, London, 23 February 1789.

Robert Robinson, Chesterton, [near Cambridge], to Mary Hays, [Gainsford Street], 4 March 1789.

William Wilberforce to the Committee of the two Congregations of Dissenters at Rotherham, 10 April 1789.

William Wood, Leeds, to William Wilberforce, with duplicate to Henry Duncombe, 24 April 1789.

A printed letter from William Wood to William Wilberforce (one was also sent to Henry Duncombe), dated 27 April 1789, about the meeting of the Protestant Dissenting Ministers of the Three Denominations in the West Riding of the County of York, accompanied by a printed copy of the resolutions passed at that meeting, chaired by William Wood, on 24 April 1789, at Leeds.

Copy of letter from William Wood, Leeds, to William Wilberforce, with duplicate to Henry Duncombe, 30 April 1789.

William Wilberforce, Maidstone, to William Wood, Leeds, 3 May 1789.

Henry Duncombe, London, to William Wood, Leeds, 6 May 1789.

Lord Sydney, Whitehall, to Henry Duncombe, London, 6 May 1789.

Henry Duncombe, London, to William Wood, Leeds, 11 May 1789.

Printed letter from Thomas Barnes, sent to Wood, reporting the resolutions of a “General Meeting of the Protestant Dissenting Ministers of the Three Denominations in Lancashire and Cheshire, held at Manchester, May 16, 1789.”

Aaron Weekens, Essex, to Willam Wood, Leeds, 22 May 1789.

A printed letter from Richard Bright, to be left at Mr. Woodland’s, at the Charity School in Stoke’s Croft, Bristol, dated 25 May 1789, in which he was commissioned by the Committee of Delegates from the several Congregations of Protestant Dissenters meeting at Lewin’s Mead, Castle Green, Bridge-Street, the Pithay, and Broad-Mead, to send a copy of their Resolutions to the London Committee and the various Committees around the country. 

Thomas Wright, Bristol, to William Wood, Leeds, 4 June 1789.

Robert Hall, Bristol, to John Ryland, Jr., Northampton, 11 August 1789.

Printed letter by Edward Jeffries, from St. Thomas’s Hospital, Southwark, 12 August 1789, to the various committee chairmen around the country.

William Wood, Leeds, representing the committee, to Henry Beaufoy, 24 August 1789.

William Wood, Leeds, to Henry Duncombe, Esqr, 24 August 1789

William Wood, Leeds, to Henry Hoghton, 24 August 1789.

William Wood, Leeds, to William Wilberforce, 25 August 1789.

Henry Duncombe, Copgrove, to William Wood, Leeds, 5 September 1789.

William Wilberforce, Buxton, to William Wood, Leeds, 8 September 1789.

Henry Hoghton, Walton Hall, to William Wood, [Leeds], undated [autumn 1789].

Robert Robinson, Chesterton, [near Cambridge], to Mary Hays, [Gainsford Street], 16 September 1789.

Henry Beaufoy, Tong near Shiffnall, to William Wood, [Leeds], 4 October 1789.

Jane Attwater, Nunton, to Elizabeth Horsey Saffery, Portsmouth, [Thursday], 12 November [1789].

William Wilberforce, Forncettt, near Long Stratton, to William Wood, [Leeds], 23 November 1789. 

Robert Robinson, Chesterton, [near Cambridge], to Mary Hays, [Gainsford Street], 8 December 1789.

William Wood, Leeds, to Henry Beaufoy, 9 December 1789.

George Walker, Nottingham, to William Wood, Leeds, undated, on the back of the printed resolutions of the meeting of the committee for Nottingham, 9 December 1789.

Christopher Wyvill, Burton Hall, to Samuel Shore (Dissenter), Leeds, 21 December 1789 [copy is not in Wood’s hand].

John Holland, Unitarian minister at Bolton, to William Wood, Leeds, 29 December 1789.