Richard Johnson, 2 Rumsford Street, Liverpool, to Joseph Angus, Baptist Mission House, 6 Fen Court, Fenchurch Street, London, 27 October 1842.

2 Rumsford St
L[iver]pool
27 Oct 1842

My dear Sir

      On receipt of your favour yesterday, I asked Mr Jackson (of Hamilton & Coy) about his Vessel & he said he would not go to Fernando Po until her return from other parts of Africa, but he told me that Horsfall [&] Son were likely & I find they do send one direct to Fernando Po, but the time is not fixed nearer than within the next three months, Mr Horsfall expressed himself friendly  so far as not to show any impediments in the way of their going on the same terms as other passengers, & he promises to send for me to see the Captain as soon as their arrangements are more matured, and also for this Captain to give me some information from Fernando Po which Mr Horsfall thinks may be useful to us, after which I will write you.

                                          & believe me

                                                            My dear Sir

                                                                              Yours very truly

                                                    Richd Johnson

Revd J Angus A. M.      

Text: Timothy Whelan, Baptist Autographs in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 1741-1845 (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2009), p. 262 (annotated version); also MAW, Box 39 (BMS 1709), John Rylands University Library of Manchester. The firm of Messrs. Horsfall & Son, Liverpool, provided free passage for Merrick and his wife to Fernando Po the following spring. See BMS Committee Minutes, Vol. I (Jan. 1843-May 1844), fol. 37, Angus Library, Regent's Park College, Oxford.