John Webster Morris, Clipston, to John Sutcliff, Olney, 11 June 1802.

D.r Bro.

          Ever since the receipt of yours, I have been waiting a conveyance for a parcel to Olney, and must send by Coach at last. Will now make it as large as I can.—Have heard more heavy tidings. The amiable M.rs Wragg of Nottingham was setting out last week for the association, intending to spend a day or two at Arnsby, Leicester, and Clipstone in her way. Bro. Blundel went to Leicester to meet her there by appointment, and was informed that she had set out in a carriage, had scarcely left the streets of Notting.m, fainted, was taken out, and expired in the arms of her friends before they could convey her home!—Heard from M.r Fuller today: all well.—I sent the “Circular Letters” for this year; fearing you should forget to return it by the association.—M.r F. says he does not understand the subject of religious melancholy.—Hope to see you on Tuesday.—M.rs M. is very poorly—

                                                     Y.rs truly

                                                               J. W. Morris.

June 11. 1802.

         3                  Period. Acc.t         Vol. I—see     6/6—

  12 25                 Do —                         N.o 9 —           /6—

    6 25                 Do —                         N.o 8 —             6—

         6                  Watts Hymns —————      3/3/18/—

Instead of 25         N.o 9, only 12.

                         D.o   N.o 8, only   6.

Text: Timothy Whelan, Baptist Autographs in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 1741-1845 (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2009), pp. 113-14 (annotated version); also Eng. MS. 381, fol. 1437a, John Rylands University Library of Manchester. On the back page Sutcliff has written,  “June, 1802. Acc.t of Periodical Acc.t” Ann Wragg (sometimes spelled “Ragg”) joined the Baptist meeting at Friar Lane in Nottingham on 22 February 1789; her husband, Thomas Wragg, joined on 18 December 1796. Mrs. Wragg died on 6 June 1802, aged 37. She had seven children, the last born on 27 December 1800. J. W. Morris included a short summary of Mrs. Wragg’s death in the  Biblical Magazine (1802), 359. One of the circular letters sent by Morris may have been Andrew Fuller’s The Practical Uses of Christian Baptism[,]  a Circular Letter from the Ministers and Messengers of the Several Baptist Churches of the Northamptonshire Association,  Assembled at Northampton, June 15, 16, 1802, to the Churches in Their Connexion  (1802) (he is the M.r F.  above).