Thomas Dunscombe, [Bampton], to John Rippon, London, 10 January 1793.

Dear Rippon,  

         How is it we seem to have given up epistolary intercourse except when some particular business calls on us to support it? it isn’t, I am confident from a decline of affection on either side, and yet no other cause ought to be effectual to produce such a circumstance.

         Perhaps you are deeply immersed in providing or in printing your next number of the Register: pray what think you of my sending a parcel of my publications with your next Number to America? If the Doctors memory is in high estimation there, as I think it must be, it may not be an improper step: but you can judge as well as any man I know of the propriety hereof.

         How stand London Dissenters affected, as to the present state of Politics? With me conjecture iself is at a loss to scratch out the tendency and termination of the present state of things in the world at large, & in this & the neighbouring country in particular. How are all yr family? Accept our joint love for them send me all the news you can, political ecclesiastical & social, and be assured that I am, without any alteraton to worse, yrs

                                 T Dunscombe

Jany 10th 1793.

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Text: John Rippon Letters, British Library, Add. Ms. 25386, fol. 422.