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Title	Letter to The Revd. Mr. [Thomas] Haweis
Post Date	May 3, 1790
Author	Huntingdon, Selina Hastings, Countess of, 1707-1791.
Recipient	Haweis, Thomas, 1734-1820.
Date	1790-05-03
Physical Description	4 pgs total; 2 pgs text; 1 pg address; 1 pg blank
Dimensions	24 x 38 cm.
Address To	Vineyards, Bath
Country To	England
Address From	Spa Fields, London
Country From	England
Transcriber	Wanda Smith
Plain Text Transcription	Letter 106 May 3, 1790 [Address panel:] To The Revd Mr Haweis Vineyards Bath [Postmarked from London, May 3, 1790] My dear friends You are ever obliging one, the ever so little worthy, your most kind & affectionate attentions as myself. I am delighted with those your most just & faithfull sentiments I find in your book & I think you will never want an appeal to any received truths while your own wise explanation (in my esteem) will be so much more clearly addressed to every degree of simplicity found in a rational mind as your & ever far exceeding others in these privileges the Gospel to be understood as a fact & enjoyed as the certain possession of truth is only wanted in this our day & giving no man's opinion is or can be as adding to its value & so leaves its own excellence as its surest defence. If my partiality to you supposes that your opening its truths is all it can want with the honour now upon you, forgive me & accept my thanks for any address I share in it from you. I must get honest Sheppard & Ford to send me all the demands for the young men. Any little present that is not in money may teach gratitude to their hearts but to burden any creature with my views which I so account in our Lord's service my only honour on earth will be such & my last penny will be sweetest while it goes for him. I last night sent my offer of a thousand pounds for a church in Paris & it is thought it will be accepted & to N[orth] A[merica] for English Protestants so English must be only preached. Six chapels are building, agreeing for or finally treaty'd for, two of which will be a thousand pounds each & one exactly after Bath plan. A gentleman of fortune I never heard of out of Oxfordshire was with me & offers ground at his park door. The wonder he is appointed is great for this. All flourishes here. Dr Ford well deserves the most respectfull esteem & is most highly approved as a minister, but his enemies are many & mighty. I had got thus far when surprise & various feelings obliged me to lament poor Madan's sudden death. It is supposed a suffocation from his lungs. The various events with the states of the churches does make me still more strongly presage[?]_approaching confusions & indeed without a Pentecost or its often[?] forerunner, trials upon trials. I know not how matters in future can be reconciled. Love to my very dear old friend, your partner, this with love, prayers, & thousands of heartfelt wishes,.I remain as every your & Mrs H[aweis’] Ever & ever affectionate & obliged friend S Huntingdon Spa Fields May 3 1790 I am love, very low & nothing but your ever welcome letters could give me life for writing a line. Dear Lady Ann’s true love.
Notes	Postmarked from London, May 3.
Catalog Link	http://libcat.smu.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=196971
Unique Identifier	Huntingdon 05031790
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 15