Charles Hadden Spurgeon, Westwood, Beulah Hill, Upper Norwood, to a S. Duncan, 2 June 1887.

Westwood

Beulah Hill

Upper Norwood

1887 June 2

Dear Mr Duncan,

         I thank you heartily for attending at once to the matter. I will pay the £5 if Doubleday hesitates upon the score of money.

         That Hornsey debt is the stumbling-stone. I am not able to recommend you to come, when I think of that burden & of the inability of the people to bear it. They are willing enough, but the salary you mention & the interest of the debt are I fear more than they can get together. Having had to help them before to pay current expenses, & having such an application before me now, I think I speak with assurance.

         Nevertheless, I wd not hinder you if you feel that you can bear up under the load. This chapel has been so long before the Baptist public in one form or another that I fear it will be hard to beg for it with success.

         I cd often use you – as at Sittingbourne, if you were near: but I cannot tell what to say.

                                 Yours heartily

C.    H. Spurgeon

Address: none

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