Edward Jeffries, St. Thomas’s Hospital, to William Wood, Leeds, 15 May 1790, informing him of the London Committee’s resolutions and the creation of a standing committee to proceed with a national meeting and national organization.

Sir

        The Committee having agreed on the enclosed address, I am desired to transmit the same to the Chairmen of the several districts; it will appear in the London papers Monday the 17th & it is wished to be published in all the country papers.

        The general body of deputies met last Thursday to receive the report of the Committee & to determine on the plan for a standing committee, both which were agreed to & they will be printed & circulated as soon as possible, when measures must be adopted to carry the plan into execution; Tho’ the 1st of June is there mentioned, it must be extended to a more distant time, at least till a sufficient number are announced to form the body.  I was willing to give this information to a few principal places, before a general distribution can take place.

        I have the honor to be respectfully,

                                    Your most obedt Servt

                                                                    Edwd Jeffries

Text: Test Acts Papers, no. 103, Unitarian Collection, UCC 3/6/6, John Rylands University Library of Manchester.