William Jeeves, Hitchin, to Joseph Angus, Baptist Mission, 6 Fen Court, Fenchurch Street, London, 7 April 1842.

Hitchin, April 7th 1842

My dear Sir,

   I am directed by Mr Brown to forward you this notice—not knowing how, or when, you, or the deputation—intend coming I think it right to say the earliest coach that arrives here on Monday is the Times, at 6 o’clock, it starts from the Peacock at Islington at 2 o’clock—there is also a coach passes through Stevenage on Monday at—12 o’clock called the Stamford; that Town is 4 miles distant—but if you think proper to come by that coach—I shall feel pleasure in sending my Chaise for to meet you—Only let me know previously

                           I am my dear Sir

                                       Yours truly

                                                   Wm Jeeves

Rev. J. Angus

Text: Timothy Whelan, Baptist Autographs in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 1741-1845 (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2009), pp. 230-31 (annotated version); also MAW, Box 39 (BMS 62), John Rylands University Library of Manchester. William Jeeves  (1814-1894) was evidently a bricklayer by trade, for when the new chapel at Tilehouse Street was erected at Hitchin, Hertsfordshire, in 1844, Jeeves was paid £526 for “bricklaying, etc.” Thomas Brown, a member at Tilehouse who died in 1849, aged 73. See  Jean Laidlaw, Hitchin, Hertfordshire. Monumental Inscriptions of Tilehouse Street Baptist Church, Hitchin (Hertford: Hertfordshire Family and Population History Society, 1992), 10, 22; and G. E. Evans, Come Wind, Come Weather: Chronicles of Tilehouse Street Baptist Church 1669-1969 (London: Whitefriars Press, 1969), 41.