Joseph Angus, Regent’s Park College, London, to Thomas Raffles,  Liverpool, 10 September 1857.

On the back of a printed fundraising letter for the college dated 10 September 1857, Angus writes:

If you honor this lithograph with a place, by all means let this printed statement be pasted on the back.   Else our children will say, "What extravagance!" and "What easy pleasant lives our fathers led!" The ‘cost’ rebukes the first thought: the whole aspect & tone of the circular, of which I myself have issued several hundreds, each with earnest postscripts, rebukes the second. The true sililoquy of a worthy descendant of either of us should be:   "These men did & got for God what they would never have cared to do or get for themselves!"

Text: ENG. MS. 372, fol 47d, 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.