C. H. Spurgeon, Clapham, to unknown recipient, 9 November [?].

Dear Sir

         My own magazine exhausts all my time for periodical literature, otherwise I should certainly have seized the opportunity wh you have placed before me.  I count the invitation to write for yr magazine to be a high honour, & an amiable token of your kind spirit; but I am at the end of my tether & on the verge of the utmost that one mortal man can do.

         With kindest regards to yourself & Dr Jobson[?] I am, Dear Sir

                                             Yours very heartily

                                                         C. H. Spurgeon

Text: MAM PLP 98.9.32, Methodist Archives, John Rylands University Library of Manchester.