Henry Colenutt, Lower James Street, Portsea, to [Joseph Angus, Baptist Mission, 6 Fen Court, Fenchurch Street, London], 29 June 1842.

Portsea June 29

Dear Sir

   As secretary of Meeting House Alley Chapel Seminary School [I] shall feel obliged for any information you can afford respecting the Orphan School at Calcutta, having recently formed a Juvenile Auxy Missy Socy among the children. I think it desirable that something tangible should be presented them as a stimulus, having seen a communication in a recent “Herald” on the above subject I wish to know fully the nature objects & character of such school, and of its claims on British Children especially. An answer at your earliest convenience (having delayed writing you during the press of business arising out of the meetings at Kettering &c) will particularly oblige

         Yours Respectfully

H. Colenutt  
Lr  James’ Street

                                       Portsea

Text: Timothy Whelan, Baptist Autographs in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 1741-1845 (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2009), p. 238 (annotated version); also MAW, Box 39 (BMS 792), John Rylands University Library of Manchester. Colenutt was a member of the Baptist church, Meeting House Alley, Portsea, where Charles Room ministered from 1837 to 1844. His church contributed £43.14.2 to the Jubilee Fund in December 1842. See Missionary Herald (January 1843), 68.