John Sutcliff, Olney, to Samuel Bagster, Paternoster Row, London, 19 March 1813.

Sutcliff is adding several more books (some of which have a large “X’ placed beside them) to a previous order. Though near the end of his life and writing in a very fragile and difficult hand, Sutcliff is still concerned about the quality and appearance of the books he orders; he notes at the bottom of the letter, “Let the Edges of Board be sprinkled with blue.” The books he ordered are as follows:  Private Thoughts on Religion, and Other Subjects Connected with It (York, 1786; Philadelphia, 1803) by Thomas Adam (1701-84), rector of Wintringham; A Brief Declaration and Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity as also of the Person and Satisfaction of Christ (London, 1669; Glasgow, 1798) and Christologia, or, A Declaration of the Glorious Mystery of the Person of Christ (London, 1679; 1812) by John Owen (1616-83); The Christian Monitor for the Last Days, or, A Caution to the Professedly Religious Against the Corruptions of the Latter Times, in Doctrine, Discipline,  and Morals (London, 1799) by John Dyer (1766-1822), later Secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society, 1816-22; The Pleasantness of a Religious Life Opened and Proved (London, 1758) by Matthew Henry (1662-1714); and The Life of the Rev. John Wesley . . . : To Which is Prefixed, Some Account of his Ancestors and Relations:  With the Life of the Rev. Charles Wesley, ed. John Whitehead (1740?-1804) (London, 1793-96; 2nd. ed., Dublin, 1805-1806). 

Text: Eng. MS. 371, fol. 116b, John Rylands University Library of Manchester. Samuel Bagster (1772-1851) established what would become a prominent bookselling and printing business in Paternoster Row, London, in 1794, about the same time as William Button moved his business there.