J. H. Wiffen, Woburn Abbey, to T. H. Horne, London, 19 February 1823.

My dear Sir,

         I have but a few moments to answer thy letter of yesterday morning. I by no means wished to insinuate that Mr Bosworth was not fully competent to give instruction in Writing & Arithmetic as well as the Classics.  Thou will form thine own opinion from the letter I send thee, which I judge likely to be more satisfactory than any opinion I should give upon the subject. The letter may be returned at any convenient opportunity, and with every wish for the welfare and success, believe me, with kind remembrances to Mr. Roy.  

                                                               Thy sincere friend   

                                                                                  J. H. Wiffen

Wob. Abb. Feb. 19th. 1823.

Text: Timothy Whelan, Baptist Autographs in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 1741-1845 (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2009), p. 202 (annotated version); also Eng. MS. 373, fol. 213a-b, John Rylands University Library of Manchester. Newton Bosworth (1778-1848), Baptist educator and writer, operated boarding schools in Cambridge (1803-23) and London (1823-34) before emigrating to Canada. Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen (1792-1836) was a Quaker writer and educator in Woburn, Bedfordshire.