Joseph Angus, Baptist Mission House, London, to Thomas Raffles, Liverpool, 24 March 1845.

My dear sir,

   I have much pleasure in enclosing a brief History of our Mission, & am greatly obliged by what I take to be a kind consent to speak at our morning meeting. If you will favour me by leaving the other points touched on in your note till I can forward you a Resolution, I will take care & let you have it early.

               Believe me to be

                           very sincerely Yours,

                                       Joseph Angus

Revd Dr Raffles

Text: Timothy Whelan, Baptist Autographs in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 1741-1845 (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2009), pp. 324-25 (annotated version); Eng. MS. 372, fol. 47c, John Rylands University Library of Manchester. Thomas Stamford Raffles, in his Memoirs of his father, notes that the elder Raffles preached at the 30 April 1845 meeting of the Baptist Missionary Society at the Poultry Chapel, but he did not preach at the annual meeting the next day. See Thomas Stamford Raffles, Memoirs of the Life and Ministry of the Rev. Thomas Raffles, D.D., LL.D. (London:  Jackson, 1864), 381.