Robert Hall, Cambridge, to Thomas Langdon, Leeds, c. 1804. 

Dear Sir,

I thank you for your kind letter, and the sermon enclosed, which I have read with much pleasure.  I most cordially wish well to the institution for which you plead, and should be happy were it in my power to do any thing to promote it. . . . As to my preaching on the occasion, I cannot perceive any material benefit likely to result from it, were it in m power; but I am so situated that I cannot.

 . . . If, however, I possibly can strain a point to please the good people of Yorkshire, I will.  When shall I have the pleasure of seeing you at Shelford?  I have now a house and quiet retreat, where it will give me high satisfaction to see Mr. and Mrs. Langdon.

I am, my dear friend,

Yours affectionately,

Robert Hall

Text: A Brief Memoir of the Rev. Thomas Langdon, Baptist Minister, of Leeds . . .  By his Daughter  (London: Baines & Newsome, 1837), 45.