John Greene,No. 2 Peel St., Toxteth Park, [Liverpool], to Thomas Raffles, Liverpool, Sunday morning, undated (c. 1839).

My dear Sir

   I have taken a House as above chiefly for Mrs Greene’s health.

   I enclose for your perusal incidental testimonials from our mutual friend the Revd Timothy East who has promised to spend a week with us before winter and has given me a charte blanche to preach a Sabbath for you when agreeable.

   If other motives for removal from Edgbaston were wanting the recent awful disturbances in Birmingham would supply them, where I had a narrow escape for my Life.

                           I am my dr Sir

                                       Yrsrespecy

                                                   John Greene

                                                   formerly of Cambridge

Text: Eng. MS. 377, fol. 814, John Rylands University Library of Manchester. Greene would later publish Reminiscences of the Rev. Robert Hall, A. M.  Late of Bristol, and Sketches of his Sermons Preached at Cambridge Prior to 1806 (1832). Timothy East (1783-1871) ministered to churches in Somerset, Birmingham, Yorkshire, and Devon, 1805-1864.