Joseph Angus, Regent’s Park College, London, to Thomas Raffles, Liverpool,  23 November 1857.

College Regent’s Park

Nov. 23d 1857

My dear sir

         I have now six packages to acknowledge, each deserving no common thanks: besides a [illegible word] of no small interest & worth.  I was examining only the other day for Wm. Jones’ capital work on bailments, & you have now enriched me with his Kaligraph.

         I cannot tell the worth of Down’s prescription.  Is it a foolish prejudice, that tempts me to undervalue a poet-physician but the document you sent me I prize much.  The whole indeed are more welcome than I can tell you: & as they all will be placed in a room where the works penned by these respective writers are they will be very appropriate & interesting.

         Can I in any way make any acknowledgment of your kindness?  I have autographs of Wayland, of D.r Williams (of New York) & of some others: & I could easily get or send you any Baptist Autographs you may wish.

         I am having those you send me put under glass: as I hope you will someday come & see them & us.

         Yours ever

                     Affy & respy

                                 Joseph Angus

Rev. D.r Raffles.

Text: ENG. MS. 372, fol. 47h, 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 Sir William Jones (1746-94), a distinguished Orientalist and lawyer known for his essay, On the Law of Bailments (1781)' John Summers Down (1783?-1849), author of Observations on the Nature and Treatment of the Fevers and Bowel Complaints which Travelers in Greece are exposed to . . .  (London, 1823)/ Francis Wayland (1797-1865), noted American Baptist leader and pastor of the First Baptist Church, Boston (1821-26) prior to his distinguished tenure as President of Brown University (1827-55);  and William Rosser Williams (1804-85), minister at the Baptist congregation in Amity Street, New York City, from 1832 to 1883.