Robert Hall, Leicester, to Thomas Langdon, Leeds, 25 April 1822.

My dear Friend,

  It is always with great pleasure I receive a letter from a friend I so highly love and esteem.  I am glad to find your health is not worse than it has been lately, and it is my earnest prayer and hope, that you may yet be spared many years, though I am fully persuaded your removal from this stage of suffering would be to yourself an unspeakable gain, whilst to your friends, family, and religious connexions, the loss would be irreparable.

April 25th, 1822.

Text: Brief Memoir of the Rev. Thomas Langdon, Baptist Minister, of Leeds . . .  By his Daughter  (London: Baines & Newsome, 1837), 120.