Charles Hadden Spurgeon, Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington, Southwark, to unnamed correspondent, [London], 29 December 1865.

Dec 29. 1865

Dear Madam,

         I have done my best to find some one to visit Mr Jones but this week everyone is so busy. We shall be glad to help Mr Jones, but as to paying burial fees that is quite out of the question. The number of our poor is very great & we can only do a little for each. The parish in every case ought to bury the dead where the deceased are poor & we a s rule refuse to ease parishes by paying what it is their business to pay. I hope to find some one to see Mr Jones but if I fail you may consider me in your debt the sum of £5 to be spent in assisting Mr Jones to whom give my Christian love & say how gladly I would come to see him if I could.

         The £5 you can lay out as you desire & as your discretion guides you, but it is the utmost I can do.

                     Yours very truly

C.    H. Spurgeon

Address: none

Charles Spurgeon Letters, RG no. 1132, American Baptist Historical Society Archives, Atlanta.