Robert Hall, Leicester, to Thomas Langdon, Leeds, summer 1824.

My very dear Friend,

  I thank you very sincerely for your very kind invitation to Leeds, and am most happy to find your health is so much restored.  Mr.–  gratified me much by informing me that you stood the last winter rather better than usual, notwithstanding the extreme severity of the season; whence I am induced to hope that you reconstitution is improved, and that, with requisite care and attention, you will yet be spared some, I hope many years. . . . . For these reasons, it is out of my power to visit Leeds this summer; but as your health is so much recruited, I hope we may flatter ourselves, without presumption, with the prospect of enjoying each other’s society in the autumn.

  I sympathise, my dear friend, deeply in all your trials, particularly in the recent heavy one, – in the removal of your dear and excellent daughter.  I am distressed when I think of the grief it must have occasioned to dear Mrs. Langdon; but the Lord is all-sufficient; and it is my earnest and frequent prayer, that you may both be supported under it, and that all may work for your lasting good.  I beg to be most affectionately remembered to dear Mrs. Langdon and family, and to all friends, as if named.  Farewell, my dear, my friend. 

Text: Brief Memoir of the Rev. Thomas Langdon, Baptist Minister, of Leeds . . .  By his Daughter  (London: Baines & Newsome, 1837), 82-83.