J. B. Titherington, Honiton, Devon, to [Joseph Angus, Baptist Mission House, London,] 1 April 1842.

Honiton, April 1st/1842

Dear Sir,

   I shall esteem it as a favour if you would be kind enough to give me a brief reply to a few queries as follow:—

   Is there at present wanted a Minister at Graham’s Town in Western Africa?

   If so, is it the intention of the Missy Comme to interest themselves in sending one out—and on what terms would they do it? And what might be the probable expence of the voyage—and from what quarter would his support there come?  What is the nature of the labour—and what the extent and prospects of the field?  As also, what the language used—According to information the climate on the whole is salubrious—

   Hoping you will if occasion serves, give me a word of information on some or all of these points

               I am sir—

                     With much respect

                                       Yrs truly

                                           J. B. Titherington

Text: Timothy Whelan, Baptist Autographs in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 1741-1845 (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2009), pp. 229-30 (annotated version); also MAW, Box 39, John Rylands University Library of Manchester. Titherington served as pastor of the Baptist church at Honiton from 1840 to 1846. George Aveline was serving as a BMS missionary at Grahamstown, in what is now South Africa, at the time of the above letter.