Robert Hall, Leicester, to Thomas Langdon, Leeds, c. 1820.

My dear Sir,

  It gives me great pleasure to hear from you, and to learn that your health has not suffered, I hope, much alteration for the worse.  I anticipate with much satisfaction the thought of once more spending a few days under your hospitable roof; but I must earnestly beg you will not let it be so much an open house as when I was at Leeds last.  I am soon weary and overcome with much company, and the thoughts of having no retirement, even when I am at your house, is truly formidable to me.  I shall delight in spending more time (the more the better) in your family circle.  . . .

Text: Brief Memoir of the Rev. Thomas Langdon, Baptist Minister, of Leeds . . .  By his Daughter  (London: Baines & Newsome, 1837), 53.