Thomas Parkinson, basket maker, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, to [Joseph Angus, Baptist Mission House, London], 6 June 1842.

Worksop June 6th 1842

Sir

   I hope you will excuse the liberty I ham takeing in writeing to you but I have a Brother a member of your Church in India and sometime ago he sent me two pounds and I received it through the medium of your Missions—and I received another letter from him in March which states that he had sent me two Pounds more but through what medium he did not state—and has it is now June and it has not yet arrived I have taken the liberty to ask you if you have heard any thing of it from any of your Missionarys  And I shall be obliged to you for an answer as soon as possible for I ham anxious to write back to him please to

my Brothers name is                          address to me

James Parkinson                            Thomas Parkinson

Monghyr                                       Basket Maker

Bengal                                          Worksop Notts

Text: Timothy Whelan, Baptist Autographs in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 1741-1845 (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2009), p. 236 (annotated version); also MAW, Box 39 (BMS 559), John Rylands University Library of Manchester.