Joshua Marshman to Thomas Raffles, Liverpool, 10 December 1828.

My dear Sir,

         Let me beg you to write to Felt and tell him that I have a great desire to take him but cannot decide until I see him and know exactly the state of religion in his mind; that I wish him therefore to come over to Liverpool by this day month, bringing all things with him as if he were actually going, as he probably may—and if he should not go with me—back again to Hamburgh, in case he wishes to return          I am, in haste

                                             Very affecty yours

                                                               J. Marshman

Decr 10th—1828

Text: Timothy Whelan, Baptist Autographs in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 1741-1845 (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2009), p. 208 (annotated version); also Eng. MS. 380, fol. 1347, John Rylands University Library of Manchester. Marshman was in England on furlough at this time.