John Ryland, Jr., Northampton, to John Sutcliff, Olney, July 1792.

Dear Bror

        Somebody, I forget who, sd you [were] just thro Kettering last Week. I was in hope you wd have come this Way & shou’d have been glad to see you. I hope you are however got home safely & in health. I shall be glad to hear from you—

  Bror Carey had pretty good Success in London but has left about 35£ not gather’d—I think you & Mrs A. advanced 10£ or Guineas he cou’d not tell which—I suppose also your people will be willing he shd sometime collect at Olney—When will that be?—Will you be satisfied with half what you & Mrs A. lent & wait for the rest till he collects at your Town—He left the Money with me—Five of our friends had advanced 5 Guineas—these I have reduced to 2£ each which is less than their Share of the Money collected   But—two of their Neighbours, who are but cool in their Love to the Cause need to be paid the whole of their 5£ or Guineas—and the Carpenter wants as much as can be spared him, so that if you can let half lie you will do them a Kindness, and may get the remainder soon

  Let me hear from you speedily & I will send what you require—Or shall I pay the printers Bill for the Clipstone Sermons with it, which was 5£ 10 and 4s 6d for 250 Title pages—Indeed half will not be enough for that—You cannot come over just at present—I wish I cou’d see you much—Have recd last Week a new & urgent Applicn from Bristol—Carey says all the London Minrs are for it, but One who is always contrary to the Majority & wonders I shd have the least hesitation on the Subject.  We unite in Respects to yourself & to Mrs Andrews &c.  I am 

                           Dear Bror

                                             Yours Affectionately

                                                               John Ryland Junior

Text: Timothy Whelan, Baptist Autographs in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 1741-1845 (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2009), pp. 60-61 (annotated version); also Eng. MS. 383, fol. 1773a, John Rylands University Library of Manchester. Mrs. Andrews, Sutcliff's landlady, is mentioned, once again.