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Title	Letter to The Revd. Mr. [Thomas] Haweis, at the Countess of Huntingdon
Post Date	September 2, 1790
Author	Huntingdon, Selina Hastings, Countess of, 1707-1791.
Recipient	Haweis, Thomas, 1734-1820
Date	1790-09-02
Physical Description	4 pgs total; 3 pgs text; 1 pg address
Dimensions	24 x 38 cm.
Address To	Brighthelmstone [Brighton], Sussex
Country To	England
Address From	Spa Fields, London
Country From	England
Transcriber	Wanda Smith
Plain Text Transcription	Letter 129 [Sept 2 1790] [Address panel:] To The Revd Mr Haweis at the Countess of Huntingdon Brighthelmstone Sussex [Postmarked from London, September 2, 1790.] My dear Friends A moment’s interval of ease or relief from business dearer to me than life, I fly to my dear kind friends who so sweetly taste with me that joy that ever follows dear Mr Haweis precious labours to his own faithfull heart & his many blessed instructed hearers. This to me increasing delight I hear from many quarters & those who have had respect before are charm’d with your fire, zeal & faithfull testimony given & has silenced many secret yet well known enemies of yours to shame. America does fill my heart with arguments to our gracious Lord. Happy should I have been had you seen this wisely prepar’d for his mission (Mr Johnson). He is to me a wonder & as such also to me from his humble [written over “kind”] disposition & most unreserved devotion to our dearest Lord. Great openings I find by the most certain intelligence for me estate there. The Virginia planters have chose this spot for this as preference in labour & some thousands will be established in the tobacco trade where rice & indigo may be continued independently. “O! how much I cry out great & marvelous are they ways thou king of saints,” but above all my views for the Indian Nations transport my heart. A meeting is appointed for the Chief of the Nations at New York where I shall direct Mr Johnson & with him one of the states of America for my authorised attorney to attend for a purpose of union & which by two of my attorneys an establishment may be secured. The Chief of the Creek Nation, a man of [? organis’d or originated] wonderfull knowledge & parts origins’d from Britain, thus my dear friend I end[?] South Seas, &c. &c. Let us look to for our dear Lord’s in heritance & that as poor as we are he will take us for servants in these honours [p. 2] & every nerve of mine seem _______ for his waiting orders. I have directed Mr Hemington to lay their conditions before me. I can stop at nothing. If poor dear Robinson drops the most wicked & carnal priest to be got will succeed him. Every soul with the full mean of these words can have no restraint to any real disciple of Jesus Christ. “Go ye into all the world & preach the gospel to every creature.” Party faction, church interest is the bane to the simple plain faithfull obedience to be each moment of our lives our only object. You shall know soon all about what I can do but it will be certainly all I can do to get some precious souls out of the devil’s fingers. Two petitions you have from me at your feet. One to open Zion Chapel. This lyes near my own pride & very near my inside. No publick meeting is to be attended this year. About 12 clergy must attend on that day, three to each chapel for three days. I write to dear Glascott depending on his long faithfulness & the probable consideration. It may be his last personal service to his poor old mistress. I know you will not reject your poor weak petitioner. Any time shall be continued & should Doctor Walker for your sake give a day or two for a blessing on this Plan among the most vile & wretched on earth, all to make him easy & happy in his own way assure him of from me. It is now the time of the travelling fund, the very & vast importance of the work for the South Seas, New Brunswick, America & perhaps Virginia with the vast spread of the gospel among the very poor in various places of such consequence. I must as on my knees intreat from you I have much credit for the wonderfull things done. I am a miser for its safety & utility [?]. This before your leave Brighton, my dear, dear friend, beg for. Affectionate & faithfull respect my dear M Haweis & as every oblig’d & affectionately Your S: Huntingdon This miserable scrawle has cost my weakness hours of painfull imposition if my heart was not alive in every word. Love to dear Mr Scott & all friends – Spa fields Sep 2, 1790 [in another hand] I must add my own love to you & dear Mrs Haweis, &c. I think dearest L[ady] H[untingdon] a little better. [signed] AAE [i.e. Ann Erskine] [In Lady Huntingdon’s hand] Nothing can come up to the miserable cruel & wicked conduct that unhappy creature Bradford & his poor little wretch’d son but such as the strength of the butterfly to my stubborn spirit in the Lord’s strength.
Notes	Postmarked from London, September 2.
Catalog Link	http://libcat.smu.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=197104
Unique Identifier	Huntingdon 09021790
Digital Resources Type	Image
Digitization Date	Digitized: 2011
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	1790-1799
Location (Box, Folder)	Box 2, File 22