William Tarn, Religious Tract Society, 56 Paternoster Row, to Joseph Angus, Baptist Mission, 6 Fen Court, Fenchurch Street, London, 23 August 1842.

Religious Tract Society

56 Paternoster Row

23rd Augt 1842

My dear Sir

   Your application on behalf of a missionary going to India has been laid before our Committee, and a grant of Tracts voted him, which are herewith sent

   We shall be glad to have the name of the Missy

                           Yours truly

                                       Wm Tarn

Rev J Angus           

Text: Timothy Whelan, Baptist Autographs in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 1741-1845 (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2009), p. 245 (annotated version); also MAW, Box 39 (BMS 1146), John Rylands University Library of Manchester. William Tarn was the son of Joseph Tarn (1766-1837), deacon at Union Chapel, Islington, founding member of the Evangelical Tract Society, and business manager of the Religious Tract Society, 1810-1837. William’s sister, Maria, married Samuel Dyer, CMS missionary to China; their daughter, Maria Jane, married J. Hudson Taylor, also a missionary to China. See William Jones, The Jubilee Memorial of the Religious Tract Society: Containing a Record of its Origin, Proceedings, and Results (London: Religious Tract Society, 1850), 54.