T. R. Williams, Merryvale, near Narberth, Pembrokeshire, to [Joseph Angus, Baptist Mission House, London], 21 March 1843.

Merryvale

Near Narberth 

March 21st 1843

Reverend Sirs

   The relations of the Revd Richard Williams Baptist Missionary at Agra in the East Indies received a letter from his wife dated 17th June last and they have heard that he was at Calcutta last November on his way home, but not having heard a word since they are afraid that he is dead and are in much trouble

   Shall I beg you will be so good as to drop a line to say if you know any thing of him

     If he sailed homeward, have you heard in what vessel, I mean can you give any information that will give his relatives some hope to see

                           I remain Revd Sir

                                       Your most obt Servant

                                                   T. R. Williams

                                                     Narberth 

                                                                     Pembrokeshire

Text: Timothy Whelan, Baptist Autographs in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 1741-1845 (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2009), pp. 319-20 (annotated version); also MAW, Box 39 (BMS 3071), John Rylands University Library of Manchester. Richard Williams was appointed a BMS missionary in 1839, serving until 1859, much of the time in Agra. He died in India in 1880.