Robert Hall, Leicester, to Thomas Langdon, Leeds, 29 September 1819.

. . . I was so much hurried on my return home that I almost forgot my promise of informing you of the event of my journey.  . . . Leeds surpasses every place in liberality to the Missions, as well as in personal kindness.  I shall ever look back with pleasure and gratitude on the kind attentions of my numerous friends there, to whom I beg to be most gratefully and affectionately rememberred.  Through mercy I found my family well and in peace: what shall I render to my Lord for all his goodness!  Oh! that my future life might show forth his praise! . . .  I read with much interest the proceedings at Leeds.  What awful and eventful times are these!  What will be the end of these things?  Our only consolation is that the Lord reigneth. . . . I am very much concerned to hear your complaint has returrned with so much violence.  Do, my dear friend, get a house nearer the chapel, and avoid as death all evening meetings at the chapel, and all evening parties. Your comfort, nay, your life, appears to depend (under God) on these precautions. . . .

  September 29th, 1819.

Text:  Brief Memoir of the Rev. Thomas Langdon, Baptist Minister, of Leeds . . .  By his Daughter  (London: Baines & Newsome, 1837), 142.