W. R. Maxwell, King Street, [Liverpool], to Messrs. R. & R. Johnson, Rumford Street, [Liverpool], 16 February 1843.

Gentn

   With reference to your Enquiry as to whether either of our Ships for Africa wd call at Fernando Po we have to say that the Windemere intended to sail in a week will do so— Passengers however being rather unusual to that quarter we are unable to name any rate but should your friends wish to go we doubt not an arrangement can be made—

         We remain Gentn

   Your [most] obtt

               W. R. Maxwell

King St

16 Feby 1843

Messrs R & R Johnston [sic]  Rumford St.

Text: Timothy Whelan, Baptist Autographs in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 1741-1845 (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2009), p. 302 (annotated version); also MAW, Box 39 (no BMS number), John Rylands University Library of Manchester.