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.