Joseph Angus, Regent’s Park College, London, to Thomas Raffles, Liverpool,  13 November 1857.

Coll Reg. Park.

Nov. 13th 1857

My dear D.r

         Your favour came faster than my acknowledgments.   The fact is that your first letter failed thro’ some postal delay to reach me till yesterday: & yesterday I was much engaged till after post time.  And now I have two packets to acknowledge: very welcome indeed.  As will additional packets be.  I am unwilling to name any in particular.  I can turn any to account.  Autographs of Authors are of course most in harmony with my design.

         I suppose you have a good specimen of Harmer, & also of Rosenmuller (the Elder), if not I will put aside one of each for you—with the vol. of Doddridge.

         I return Jerdan and Longfellow: presuming that you will always be able to use them; & I have one of each.  I will do the same thing in similar cases unless I hear from you to the contrary.

         With best respects—

                     Yours ever truly & affy

                                 Joseph Angus

Rev. D.r Raffles

Text: ENG. MS. 372, fol. 47g, Raffles Collection, John Rylands University Library of Manchester. For a detailed discussion of the Angus-Raffles Correspondence, see Timothy Whelan,  “Joseph Angus and the Use of Autograph Letters in the Library at Holford House, Regent’s Park College, London,” Baptist Quarterly 40 (2004), 455-76.

References above are to Thomas Harmer (1714-88), minister at the Congregational Church in Wattisfield, 1734-88);  Ernst Fredrich Karl Rosenmueller (1768-1835), a noted biblical scholar and geographer and author of Annotations on some of the Messianic Psalms (Edinburgh, 1841) and Biblical Geography of Asia Minor, Phoenicia, and Arabia (Edinburgh, 1841); William Jerdan (1782-1869), editor of the Literary Gazette; and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-82), American poet.