J. W. Morris, [Dunstable], to John Sutcliff, Olney, 21 November 1806.

Dear Bro.

          Your American order was sent to Boston in May last, but am greatly afraid that both of them are lost, and also another parcel in Jan.y, as I have heard nothing from Boston since Oct. [1]805. However I have this week sent again, & again copied your order.— D.r Ryland and Fernandez just called, but it was very transient.  He was full of wrath about our review of Rippon!  It was written by a person in London whom I do not know: but it was sent to me for revision, and I laid at least a discount of 40 p cent upon it, or it would have killed him quite!—I wish much to be at Northampton, but the weather and roads are forbidding, and I am still very poorly of a cold caught for my journey to Biggleswade. If I were to come I could not preach without injury to my self; and perhaps might venture out if I were excused from preaching, as indeed I ought to be. I have not been well this fortnight or more. Blundel is better, but is not likely to stir out.— No preaching at Hockliff last sabbath, but I sent one of our friends to read: the place was suffocating—[Tift?] will be there next sabbath, and now I hope there will be no further mistakes.

                                                               Yours affec.t

                                                                                 J W Morris

Nov. 21. [1]806.

2    Memoirs of Miss Anthony—-         3/6 —    6.0

2    D.o    Pearce, common———          1/6 —    2.6

1    Watts, red Rone    ———                   4/6 —    4.--

1    Hopkins on Holiness———             2/ —      1.8

                                                                                     14.4

Text: Timothy Whelan, Baptist Autographs in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 1741-1845 (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2009), pp. 133-34 (annotated version); also Eng. MS. 381, fol. 1437c, John Rylands University Library of Manchester. Ignatius Fernandez (1757-1830) was a BMS supporter in India who visited England in 1806. In the November 1806 issue of the Theological and Biblical Magazine (502-508), John Rippon was severely criticized in an unsigned review of his Memoir of Abraham Booth, which Rippon had delivered at Booth’s interment on 9 February 1806. The Memoir was published in connection with James Dore’s funeral sermon for Booth. Apparently, Booth had left explicit commands that there were to be no memorials of his life and work spoken at his funeral or interment. The anonymous reviewer praised Dore for following those wishes, but brutally lambasted Rippon at length for failing to do so. Other works referenced above include The Life and Character of Miss Susanna Anthony [1726-91], Consisting Chiefly in Extracts from her Writings, with Some Brief Observations on Them. An edition appeared in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1796, edited by  Samuel Hopkins (1721-1803) of Rhode Island; another edition, titled Memoirs of Miss Susanna Anthony, appeared in 1803, edited by John Ryland, Jr., and  printed at Clipston by Morris and sold in London by William Button, among others; Memoirs of  . . . the Rev. Samuel Pearce; With Extracts from his Letters, by Andrew Fuller, was first published by Morris at Clipston in 1800; and An Inquiry into the Nature of True Holiness (1773; 1791), by Samuel Hopkins.