J. Peggs, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, to Joseph Angus, Baptist Mission, 6 Fen Court, Fenchurch Street, London, 21 March 1843.

Ilkeston  Derbyshire

March 21. 1843

My dear Sir

   When I returned from Chesterfield I found your letters—These printed letters may serve your purpose. But I have the pleasure to inform you that through your valuable favor of Lord Aucklands Dispatch I have addressed a printed Letter to Sir Robt Peel Bt. on the present note of British Connexion with Idolatry in India & Ceylon &c—

   It is printed by Snow. Paternoster Row  £50 price 1/—  Please to send to Snows for two or three copies to be forwarded to your correspondent at Poynder, Hankey &c— N. pp. 8, 9 and 45—you will see recent information about the [illegible word] festival.—

   The enclosed was returned to me addressed to Mr Davis. Please send me the names of some of your active men in British America that I may send some parcels of my books to them & to the  [Donnia?] library. You have not acknowledged my books in the Herald; Peels Pamphlets costs me £20. Help me to circulate it, and to pay for it too. One friend has sent me £5. He lives near Peterboro—a strong eccentric man.—T. B. Ward Esq.  Stand ground—Apply to me for your objects

                                       Yours &c—

                                                   J. Peggs

Text: MAW, Box 39 (BMS 3049), John Rylands University Library of Manchester. John Snow was a printer at 35 Paternoster Row. Ward was probably a General Baptist in Peterborough.