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Title	Letter to Mrs. [Thomas] Haweis, at Mrs. Elkington's House in the Vineyards
Post Date	May 1, 1774
Author	Huntingdon, Selina Hastings, Countess of, 1707-1791.
Recipient	Haweis, Elizabeth McDowall, 1778-1855.
Date	1774-05-01
Physical Description	4 pgs total; 3 pgs text; 1 pg address including notes from Elizabeth McDowall Haweis
Dimensions	24 x 39 cm.
Address To	Bath
Country To	England
Address From	Trevecca College
Country From	Wales
Transcriber	Wanda Smith
Plain Text Transcription	Letter 82 [May 1774] [Address panel:] To Mrs Haw[e]is at Mrs Elkington’s House in the Vineyards Bath My d[ea]r Madam I have been in pain least[sic] a letter I wrote to you soon after my arrival hear has not reached J you. It was full of thanks to you & d[ea]r Mr Haw[e]is. Both send fresh accounts of the great & continued blessing his ministry is to many. May the Lord abundantly bless him. Our poor gratefull prayers follow you day & night. Indeed if I could speak the all of my heart you would not think it a _______ one to you both. I am so comforted by the happy[?] instrument d[ea]r Mr Haw[e]is is made that I am ready sometimes to turn Welch woman [could be “watchwoman”] are enough to Jesus[?]. It would amase & astonish you to see the letters from the places (not from the students). What a sudden spread seems every where the Lord awaketh the ear to hear. May he grant the understand[in]g heart also. Should you not have received my letter what a monster ought I to appear to you & Mr Haw[e]is. I have this [p. 2] morning received such a piece of news that I can hardly yet believe true tho it will prove so much to My Cost soon that it is so. The Brighton Chapel is pull'd down in order to build it larger. By this means our summers services is at an end & this without a single idea of mine being concerned in it. I should have been glad to have suffered both from the difficulty as well as strange impropriety had not my many intreaties to d[ea]r Mr Haw[e]is & you been so multiplied that I trusted a blessing, nay thousands of blessings, might have rested by his ministry there. Sure he will remember Tunbridge Wells. I have given some hopes of him there. I hope to have a line to hear how you both do before you leave Bath & how much further kindness you mean to shew me. Don't think this unreasonable while we serve the same gracious master whose honour is our only aim. I am now fitting out several able students to sound a general & universal alarm over England in the fields & citys where the Gospel has not yet been sounded. I daily see our work is more & more universal both from the leadings of God & also the lively & intrepid[?] spirit of many & that of the most cool & sensible in this College. [p. 3] One Youngman has in one place a thousand constant hearers, much much (with the Lord's blessing) this sum[m]er[?] harvest will bring to Christ's garnar[?] O pray for me that all I am not may be the Lord's. To be sure we are altogether his for time as well as his to all eternity is the invarrable cry of your poor unworthy friend. Christian love to d[ea]r Mrs Haw[e]is with more thanks then I can express. I beg nothing may be mentioned at Bath of this affair in Sussex. D[ea]r Mrs Perkwell is just as I agreement of the affair as myself. Miss Orton went to my house for a fortnight there & in a good meaning but a ____ ill judged one for my pocket has taken this very strange one but faith & patience must be the poor widow's motto. I ever am my d[ea]r Madam your obliged & very affectionate friend & Servt S: Huntingdon College [i.e., Trevecca, Wales], May 1, 1774 [P.S.] My letter to you was enclosed to Mr Loyd Frank with one to Mrs Grinfield. I am in great pain should have come safe. Say all that is kind to any that ask after me. [This letter was originally sent from Treveca, Wales, to Bath, by "X Post"--i. e., Cross Post. A Bath postmark shows that it arrived there on May 7. The letter was then redirected to Aldwinckle, Northamptonshire. A note, in the hand of Haw[e]is's third wife, Elizabeth McDowall, is at the bottom of p. 3: "Note. Miss Orton (afterwards Mrs Haweis) paid the whole expence of enlarging the Chapel, for which purpose she sold her Jewels, and it did not cost Lady Huntingdon a Farthing. E. Haweis." Another note by Elizabeth McDowall is along the edge of the address panel: "This letter was addressed to the 1st Mrs Haweis. Miss Orton was the 2nd [Mrs Haweis]. Lady Anne Erskine was my informant concerning the Jewels, but said that Miss Orton wished Lady Huntingdon to take the credit of it--which she did, as will be seen by some recently published notices of her. E. H."]
Notes	This letter was sent X Post - i.e. Cross Post - then redirected to Aldwinckle, Northamptionshire, passing through the London post office on May 7. There are some interesting notes on this letter by Thomas Haweis's third wife, Elizabeth McDowall. At the bottom of p. 3: ''Miss Orton (afterwards Mrs. Haweis) paid the whole expence of enlarging the Chapel, for which purpose she sold her jewels, and it did not cost Lady Huntingdon a farthing. E. Haweis.'' Another note by "E.H.'' along the address panel: ''This letter was addressed to the 1st Mrs. Haweis. Miss Orton was the 2nd. Lady Ann Erskine was my informant concerning the jewels, but said that Miss Orton wished Lady Huntingdon to take the credit of it - which she did, as will be seen by some recently published notices of her.''
Catalog Link	http://libcat.smu.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=196923
Unique Identifier	Huntingdon 05011774
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	1770-1779
Location (Box, Folder)	Box 1, File 25