Gilbert Wakefield, [Hackney], to unidentified correspondent, 12 January 1791.  

[Hackney] Jan 12.th 1791.

My dear Sir

Your Pacquet & Letter were very grateful to me.  Be so good as to thank M.r Wyvill for his Present by M.r Hibbert; & tell him that nothing that reminds me of him can be but most acceptable to me.  I must trouble you also to thank D.r Edwards very kindly for his Memorial, w.h I think I shall read with one of my Classes; &, tho’ a little out of Date, be so good as to desire his Acceptance of my 2.nd [Siloa.?], w.h you will oblige me much by getting from Merrill for him.  I expect much Pleasure & Information from his Notes, tho’ I was sorry to see any English among them, because it diminishes their Use to Foreigners.  I see at only glancing on the Notes many Books w.h I have never been able to procure.

Dyer, I hope, will go to M.r Estlins.  He only craves a little time to correct & prepare his Book.  Like a Blunderer, he directed his L. [Letter] to the wrong place, so that we have not yet got M.r Estlin’s Answer.  This said friend of ours is really an eccellent [sic] fellow: I admire  him much: I have taken great pains to persuade him to go to Bristol: for, I am sure no Place of the Kind will ever be found half so eligible for him. – If Dyer sh.d not go, I shall be [at loss?] to recommend such a person as you seem to wish; but I hope for no opportunity of doing this. – When I have read D.r Edwards [Paper?] I shall not be backward at giving my full opinion. – Well, you must excuse brevity, tho’, if time w.d permit, I sh.d not want Invitation to tell you more at large with that real Affection & Esteem  I am   your’s ever

Gilbert Wakefield

I can make Nothing at all of Dyer.  He says that he can’t determine till he sees you: then I tell him he ought to see you immediately; & give a decisive answer to M.r Estlin at any Rate because he has another Person, it seems, whom he will take in this Case: for a Letter is come

Text: NLW 13566C.--Letters by and about Ministers: 1775-1895, fol. 3, National Library of Wales, Aberystywth. The correspondent appears to be someone in or near Bristol, for the letter speaks of Geoge Dyer’s proposed work with J. P. Estlin, minister at the Presbyterian [Unitarian] meeting in Lewin's Mead, Bristol.