Sophia Parsons, 19 Colet Place, Commercial Road, London, to Joseph Angus, Walworth, 22 May 1842.

Dear Sir

   The accompanying letter was written whilst on my passage from India—and addressed to a dear relative. Its Contents by him to have been Communicated to the friends of this Mission—but before his arrival in England he had departed from this world; I then felt disposed to suppress it—but finding by a note from Mr Thomas that he had sanctioned to you the request he made—that I would give some information respecting Patna.

   I am induced to forward this letter without alteration

               Believe me dear Sir

                                       Very respectfully yours

                                                   Sophia Parsons

19 Colet Place

Commercial Road

May 22nd 1842

Text: Timothy Whelan, Baptist Autographs in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 1741-1845 (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2009), pp. 233-35 (annotated version); also MAW, Box 39 (BMS 438), John Rylands University Library of Manchester. Sophia Rawlings Parsons was the widow of George Parsons, BMS missionary to India, 1839-1840. He was the nephew of John Dyer, former BMS secretary..The letter mentioned above appeared (unsigned) in the Missionary Herald (August 1842), 446-49; see also Missionary Herald (November 1842), 614.