Alexander Saunders, 170 Regent Street, London, to Joseph Angus, Fen Court, Fenchurch Street, London, 11 May 1842.

170 Regent St
11th May 1842

My Dear Sir

   I am surprised to find that some at least of the Directors of the London Missy Sy consider themselves models of forbearance & Charity towards our Society, from wh delusion I have tried to remove them.

   It is difficult as you know to get at anything definite, but I got hold in conversation with one of the Directors of these things, wh if you can spare time I should be glad to refute.

1st  That Mr  Freeman laid down the rule that one Socy should not send agents where another Socy had them & we refused to agree to that Rule.

2nd  That we had sent missionaries to their Stations in the East Indies & of course produced confusion & every evil work.

3rd  That Mr Freeman had proposed to our Comee for 6 of the Directors to from each Socy to meet to adjust differences & we declined.

   I would not trespass on your time, if I did not feel that the Answers you will enable me to give will do good to a good man, a lover of good men.  Yours respectfully

                                                   Alex Saunders

Text: Timothy Whelan, Baptist Autographs in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 1741-1845 (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2009), p. 234 (annotated version); also MAW, Box 39 (BMS 352), John Rylands University Library of Manchester. Alexander Saunders (1805-1846) was a prominent layman and deacon in the Baptist church at Camberwell, under the ministry of Edward Steane. Joseph John Freeman (1794-1851) was an educator and secretary of the London Missionary Society, 1839-1846.