Robert Hall, Leicester, to unknown correspondent [Joseph Kinghorn?], 19 December 1817.

Decr 19.  1817.  Leicester

My dear Sir

         I propose complying with your last invitation and being with you on Tuesday.  I would not dictate respecting the time of my preaching, but should prefer the evening.  Mr Wilkinson made me promise, that if I come to the minister’s meeting, which promise I must keep, though you will believe me when I say that in no place should I have been more happy than under your hospitable roof & in your society & that of your amiable consort to whom I beg to be much affectionately remembered.  I have some thoughts of staying over the sabbath at Kettering with my neighbour & of preaching a lecture for Mr Jaconil? at Wellingborough in my way; but have not yet written to either of them.  I have promised for some years to spend a sabbath, at Kettering, but have not yet done it. It is high time I keep my pledge to [?] the [?] of  parliament---

                     I am my dear Sir

                                 yours affec.y

                                             Robert Hall

Text: MS. Montagu d. 7, fol. 358, Bodleian Library, Oxford.