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Title	February 17, 1816 letter from Lady Diana Barham to Thomas Haweis
Post Date	February 17, 1816
Author	Barham, Lady Diana (1762-1823)
Recipient	Haweis, Thomas (1734-1820)
Date	1816-02-17
Physical Description	4 pp. total; 3 pp. text; 1 p. address
Dimensions	38.2 x 24.5 cm
Location (Box, Folder)	Box 1, File 06
Address To	5 Beaufort Buildings, Bath
Country To	England
Address From	Swansea
Country From	England
Transcriber	Gareth Lloyd
Plain Text Transcription	From Lady Barham [Diana Noel] to Thomas Haweis at Beaufort Buildings, Bath, Somerset. She had been trying to gain a little strength from his most valuable treatise on Genesis 12 (probably a reference to Haweis 'The Evangelical expositor; or a commentary on the Holy Bible. Wherein the sacred text of the Old and New Testament is inserted at large; the sense explained; and the more difficult passages elucidated: with practical observations; London: printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1765-66) and especially his commentary on verse 3 (Genesis 12:3 - 'And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.') when his last letter arrived and on reading it, she was struck by what she had reading and cannot help but transcribe a part of it as follows: ‘God will not suffer his people to take up their rest anywhere short of heaven. If they are making a home of the horse(?) of their pilgrimage, he will [unreadable word] to remove. We have here 1st, God’s command…to leave the country, to part with his dearest friends, to forsake his possessions and to follow God…the glory of the Redeemer requires it.’ Again in T.H.’s commentary on the 9th verse (Genesis 12:9 - 'And Abraham journeyed, going on still toward the south) - ‘To be strangers and pilgrims on earth is the true character of a traveller to glory. Where God visits us we never be desolate though we were alone on a mountain, though we leave all for God…’. Diana has transcribed this so that T.H. can see the effect of his words. Diana must also thank T.H. for his great kindness and at the same time explain that she is afraid that Charles is wrong in the sum and that it was not four hundred that T.H. had offered to lend, but only three hundred? If so, she would be grateful if T.H. would please send back the ‘paper’ that Charles sent. He will immediately write another. (1 sheet, 4p.) 17 February 1816 (annotated in pencil by a 19th century hand - 'the £400 that the Earl of Gainsborough owes Dr. Haweis but refused to pay.'
Notes	Postmarked from Swansea on February 19. Red wax seal attached. Endorsed in pencil: "@ [i.e., About] the 400 pounds that the Earl of Gainsborough owes Dr Haweis but refused to pay".
Digital Resources Type	Image
Digitization Date	Digitized: 2012
Digitization Process	Digitization process: Derivatives resized at 4030 pixels in height or width
Digital Publisher	Bridwell Library, Special Collections; Perkins School of Theology; Southern Methodist University
Rights	Permission to publish materials must be obtained from the Head of Special Collections of the Bridwell Library
Decade	1810-1819