F[itzherbert]. Bugby, 96 Fishergate Hill, to unnamed correspondent, 7 June 1862.

My dear Sir,

         The first invitation I recd that you expected me at your meeting on Monday night was obtained by a glance at the placards on the walls.  I believe I was in London when you  would be giving orders to the Printer  & as you would not consult me, you felt entire confidence in my willingness to [see] you, even without the formality of an express invitation.  In such conviction you were perfectly right.

         But the Whit-week is with me a very busy one.  It is the week where we work the Annual Meetings of the Lancashire & Cheshire Association, of which I happen to be the Secretary.  I do not therefore think it will be possible to me to be with you—I rejoice that you have displaced the old chapel by the new one earnestly desire that in respects far more important than those of architectural elegance.  Beauty “the glory of this latter house” may “be great than of the former.” 

                                 Yours very truly

  F. Bugby                 

Text: ENG. MS. 861/fol. 11, Raffles Collection, John Rylands University Library of Manchester. Fitzherbert Bugby (1823-87) was at that time minister at the Fishergate Baptist Chapel.