George Walker, Nottingham, to William Wood, Leeds, 5 January 1790.

Dr Sr,

        Our District Meeting is at Leicester on ye 13th Instt where we shall be happy to see Mr Parsons either as representing himself or your Committee.  The little I observed of Mr Parsons during so short an interview much pleased me.  I shall be more pleased I am sure the more I know him.

        You will do a service and a kindness if you can procure a copy of that resolution of the London Committee, which approved of the Representative Meeting in view, signed by Jeffries, and read by one of the Ministers both over night and the next day to the Meeting, together with the date of the Resolution.

        You rate the effect of my visit to you very high, though that it had a good effect I have no doubt, because it appeared that the subject was new and little understood by many of the Deputies, while we had been contemplating it in every point of view.  Mr Morgan’s obstinate adherence to an opinion which had nothing better to rest upon than that the plan he rejected was unnecessary, was hardly modest.  With Men of such temper there can be no possibility of carrying on a common design.  Is Solitude his happiness? –  Why did you say nothing of Mr Simpson?  We are all here much interested for him, and none more sincerely than his Old Colleague. –  My own health is rather better, better than while at Wakefield.  It is probable that I shall go to Birmm the latter end of this week, and thence to Leicester. If Mr Parsons shd not reach Nottm before I go, my worthy Associate Dr Clayton will be happy to show him every attention, but I expect that Mr Parsons will take his Bed at mine.  He will have Company enough from hence to Leicester. 

                                Yr Affecte Friend

                                                G Walker

Text: Test Acts Papers, no. 51, Unitarian Collection, UCC 3/6/6, John Rylands University Library of Manchester.