Robert Hall in Leicester to Thomas Langdon in Leeds, 1 July 1822.

My dear Friend,

  I snatch a moment, agreeably to your kind request, to inform you of our safe arrival.  I felt a considerable degree of lassitude and languor, the effect of fatigue, but, on the review of the whole journey, I have the highest reason to bless the Lord for his good hand which has been upon me.  Whether we shall ever meet more in this world, is known only to Him who knows all things: the thought that it is possible we may not, deeply affects me; but another and a brigher world is before us, where I hope, through grace, we shall meet.  If your life be spared another year, together with mine, I shall certainly be tempted to make a strong effort to see you again.  But, alas!  how uncertain is the future; and what presumption to count upon years, when we know not what a day may bring forth!  Accept, my dear sir, my sincere acknowledgments of the kind attentions I have received from dear Mrs. Langdon, and every branch of your family. I beg also to be affectionately remembered both to them and to all my other friends, who accumulated upon me so many tokens of respect, that the remembrance of them both humbles and surprises me. Do, my dear friend, pay every possible attention to your health, and cherish, with the utmost care, a life so justly endeared to your family and your connexions.

July 1st, 1822.

Text: Brief Memoir of the Rev. Thomas Langdon, Baptist Minister, of Leeds . . .  By his Daughter  (London: Baines & Newsome, 1837), 118-19.