Joseph Hughes, Battersea, London, to John Sutcliff, Olney, 19 July 1804.

Battersea   July 19, 1804

Dear Sir,

             I understand Mr Carey has opened a magnificent plan relative to the translation of the Scriptures into various languages.

          This idea is so coincident with the views of the Bible Society, that I cannot but wish for some information relative to it.

          Will you favour me with a few lines containing an Extract from Carey’s Letter, such as I may lay before the Committee. I wish for it by return of post that I may have ready next Monday – 

                                             Yours affect.y

                                                               J Hughes

                                                                                 Secretary

Be kind enough to direct your letter for me at Mr Button’s to be left till called for – 

Text: Timothy Whelan, Baptist Autographs in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 1741-1845 (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2009), p. 121 (annotated version); also Eng. MS. 346, fol. 156, John Rylands University Library of Manchester. Carey’s ambitious plan to translate the scriptures into several Eastern languages was the primary reason for Fuller’s fundraising trip to Scotland in the summer of 1805. Collections and donations received during that trip totaled £1298.9.10. See Periodical Accounts, 3: 146-50.