William Steadman, Horton, to Daniel Sutcliff, Hebden Bridge, 23 September 1814.

My dear friend

         From further consideration, and in compliance with the opinion of my friends to whom I have shewed M.r Wilson’s letter, I have determined to go myself to Olney, & see to the packing of the books. But owing to our Double Lecture at Shipley on the 5 of Oct.r and likewise to a meeting of the bible society to be at Bradford the following week, I shall not be able to set out till Monday the 17th of Oct.r Should you have any letters I shall be glad to convey them, or command to execute them—with christian love to M.r Fawcett &c I am,

                                             Yours very sincerely

                                                               W Steadman

Horton

Sep.r 23.rd 1814

Text: Timothy Whelan, Baptist Autographs in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 1741-1845 (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2009), p. 171 (annotated version); also Eng. MS. 384, fol. 1909a, John Rylands University Library of Manchester. Daniel Sutcliff was John Sutcliff’s younger brother. After the latter's death in 1814, his library was given to Horton Academy at Bradford, of which Steadman was principal.