James Peggs, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, to Joseph Angus, Fen Court, Fenchurch Street, London, 7 January 1843.

Ilkeston, Derbyshire
Jan 7/ 43

My dear Br

  This is my birth day—fifty and I receive it as a token for good that I am favored to drop [along?] this parcel to my Miss. Brethren—There are 144 books & Pamphlets  Please to forward the Packet for Moffat to the London Mission House directly  Write me by return of post that my Parcel has reached you  I send you my last Literary Child—-The Gems for Schools—Treat it kindly for its father’s sake

                                       Yours sir

                                                   J. Peggs

Text: Timothy Whelan, Baptist Autographs in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 1741-1845 (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2009), p. 288 (annotated version); alsoMAW, Box 39 (BMS 2339), John Rylands University Library of Manchester.