Newton Bosworth to a Mrs. Greene, location unknown, returning a manuscript, with complements, etc. undated (c. 1822).

D.r Madam,

      I am obliged, after all, to return the MS. without giving them the reconsideration they deserve.  My time has been very much occupied, and I find, from some engagements which did not occur to my recollection yesterday, I shall not have any time at my command, till it will be too late to undertake the examination.  Some friends will be here, and I am very fearful of trusting to any intervals I may be able to snatch away.  However, I have looked through as much as I could, a second time, and am quite of the same opinion, as to their value, that I was yesterday.  I am sure Mr. Brown ought, and I have no doubt he will, consider them as contributing very materially to the perfection of his plan.

      You will see I have furnished the references to the texts from which 2 of Mr. H’s[2] funeral sermons were preached, and have altered the first word of that from the Acts. 

                        I am, Dear Madam,

                                          With great Respect (in haste)

                                                            yrs sincerely,

                                                                              Newton Bosworth.

P.S.  I must not forget to thank you for the favour of dispensing your manuscripts, and for the pleasure and interest with which that perusal has been attended.

Text: Eng. MS. 373, fol. 213b, John Rylands University Library of Manchester. The MS. Bosworth has shared with Mrs. Greene apparently formed a part of James Baldwin Brown’s Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of John Howard, the Philanthropist (1823), which would date the above letter c. 1822.