Joseph Hughes, Battersea, to Thomas Raffles, Liverpool, 22 April 1831.

My Dear Sir,

         The Committee of The British & Foreign Bible Socy direct me to request that you will take one of the resolutions to be proposed at the approaching Anniversary.

         Whether we are to have a controversial meeting or not, the day will declare.

         The Committee by no means wish to supply an occasion.

                           I am, my Dear Sir,

                                                  Yours affecy

                                                                    Jos Hughes

Rev T. Raffles DD

Text: Timothy Whelan, Baptist Autographs in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 1741-1845 (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2009), p. 211 (annotated version); also Eng. MS. 378, fol. 1015b, John Rylands University Library of Manchester.