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Title	Letter to [The Revd. Mr. Thomas Haweis]
Post Date	April 13, 1790
Author	Huntingdon, Selina Hastings, Countess of, 1707-1791.
Recipient	Haweis, Thomas, 1734-1820.
Date	1790-04-13
Physical Description	4 pgs total; 3 pgs text; 1 pg blank; address panel wanting
Dimensions	24 x 38 cm.
Address From	Spa Fields, London
Country From	England
Transcriber	Wanda Smith
Plain Text Transcription	Letter 122 Apl 13 1790 [Address panel wanting] My dear & most kind Friends Surely nothing can come up to your wise, faithful, & disinterested zeal & diligence in our blessed Lord's vineyard. I often view with most heavenly delight that divine eye that yet so tenderly deals with mortality as seeing you & causing your most honourable labours so abounding in him & for his namesake. A dear minister this day, speaking of you, was joying over your early labours at Oxford and added how much greater your late and very latest will claim yet greater honour. I have been offended with the young men I have had & have had near three stand[?] under my hands & by learning a little wisdom from much suffering I keep a straight hand over them & in future have ordered them not to ____ [?] one day from under your hands but by my most express direction. The dangers of an unhumbled mind in youth is almost hopeless with me and this from sad experience. [p. 2] I shall have a long account to send you in a post or two relative to Eyers. He is an honest creature. Doctor Addington has given up his academy and Eyers, I expect, will be chose in his place. He has been with me about it & a more disinterested heart so he can but serve the Lord most faithfully cannot be. Our Plan for this you shall know. My English students I mean to be with him & for the carrying on my dear Welch labours I mean to have the college in Wales for both languages most compleat for English and Welch. There seems not a doubt but the the[sic) whole Welch work will cordially unite as one with us &nd if so no yet known connection will be so important. Dear Jones' love. He means to write & call upon you on his return. Four of these most eminent ministers--clergymen honest, wise & faithfull men I know can be trusted & great & clear in their dear Master's cause & in the English well inform'd. Each day proves a great door is opening for something. France will be for the English Protestants if I succeed. Be so good what the young men want as from the committee & the committee draw upon me for it. [p. 3] Any business of their own I oblige their friends to pay, or they would many pastimes I could not admit of. Let Sheppard repay you with my thanks. They speak highly of you, above all, & also respectfully of Doctor Walker. The gout in my head & all over me & the spasms in my throat render my days filled with weariness & painfulness. Nothing does me any good. Fourscore & four has no reliefs till the blessed & final dismission comes. You flatter me extremely by allowing me any name united with yours. You have but to name your wishes ever as my ready commands. By an unlucky changing the coaches the packet for me was mislaid. The young men are after it & set out today for Bath. Should I be living [?] when you leave Bath my affairs I could wish to give you some intelligence of if London could be convenient in your way home. Jenkins [?] goes to Bristol when Doctor Ford leaves & Canniford & Eyers with Glascott supplys for Bath. The boys are just going. Ten millions of blessings rest on you & my dear Mrs Haweis. I can never thank you both enough but your reward is with the Most High. Fail not to speak kindly for me to all warm hearted enquirers & I must ever remain an insolvent yet ever affectionate friend S Huntingdon Spa Fields Tuesday Apl 13 1790
Catalog Link	http://libcat.smu.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=196986
Unique Identifier	Huntingdon 04131790
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 13