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Title	Unknown - Addressed to My very dear Friends
Post Date	1790
Author	Huntingdon, Selina Hastings, Countess of, 1707-1791.
Recipient	Haweis, Thomas, 1734-1820.
Date	1790
Physical Description	4 pgs total; 4 pgs text; address panel wanting
Dimensions	24 x 38 cm.
Transcriber	Wanda Smith
Plain Text Transcription	Letter 130 [Handwritten] [1790?] [Address panel wanting] [?1790] My very dear Friends [I?] have been long in thanking you for your truly kind & faithfull letter. Many miserable & painfull events do daily surround me & which nothing but a confidence stronger than all visible must sink a poor weary mariner under the waves from such storms that on all hands attack me. Yet bless’d be God I faint not. Each day has its strength & I do greatly rejoice to hear you will so soon be at Bath. As soon as you arrive there I shall send Phillips over to you --& in conjunction with your plan Mr Shirley & others will warmly adhere. A few hints of my views on the subject may serve best for your consideration. The amazing fatigues (tho not half enough for my heart) yet for all the natural strength daily growing less & that variety of cruel & ill usages now on all sides so severe I believe our gracious Lord will find out a way to make my few & evil days left, less encumbered. Your proposal seems the road & instead of the many unfaithfull I have been daily caring for – I think – support ten clergy at fifty pounds a year. Each travelling charges found there & supported truly at all the places the labour at that with these now in pay will make near eight hundred pounds a year [p. 2] & some of these faithfull & simple students that may chose to stay with me for our work may make it up near one thousand. I bless the Lord I am clear & some little matter very left makes over two hundred pounds a year. In this place for my own expences I think may do & have some little to give out of it. This with the few helpers like your faithfull selves will carry the work through the Welch clergy who preach in English. I can chiefly depend upon & about twenty young men who pre_____ well in double orders & many preaching in both in both languages is the very point. Thirty pounds a year &c will be a great support & some very lively blessed men that may be chose & now my kind friends in order to bring this the most speedily about the association of all my heartiest friends for your Plan will meet in February when I wish you, Mr Shirley, Mr Wills, Mr Glasscot & any others you think of that you could appoint & whose expences I would gladly bear. A settled, solid Plan might be established. I will write to Mr Exon & perhaps most or any you could think of besides. I shall avoid the person you name which will equally oblige others. Without some such beginning nothing can be brought solidly to bear & the art of deceits & crass knowing &c now on foot is beyond all expression. Three chapels are delivered up in Wales to me for the like purpose & there [p. 3] but a spirit active, lively & kind hearted as yours to stand the first setting off that can do to any purpose & our clergy has a real opinion of you. Phillips who is gone to the association will bring all ________ to Bath & I am going to send for an able & old friend who [?] us a clergyman to pave the way for this meeting. Mr Wills agrees to settle at Brighton in March, but I have d_____ him in Wales from the excessive demands of the English clergy & many very dead & lifeless makes great very great difficultys that yourself Mr Shirley, Wills & Venn & Glasscot would rule the young ones & with you five our two great Welchmen Jones & young Rowlands would settle with a stroke all the work & keeping three or four or men of the old faithfull students for the barns & others of the clergy as itinerants all would be well. On my hearing from this wise & excellent man I will inform you. ________ unites & makes friends; otherwise impossible fine _____ at a distance come to nothing but personal engagements will end in love & honour for the cause. Above swim hundred & fifty dissenters, have arose to turn out the clergy if possible at Norwich. You must believe these are well supported & perhaps my property there by this time pulled down about my ears & how this will end I know not. I was obliged to shutt [sic] up the chapel [p. 4] These dissenters join’d the _____ mob to have all in their own way & this is ding in all the places I have any property. No attempt to preach to the wicked but to get all into their hand. R – H shall I say that worst of men by F____ (Rand?) has got two places, one in Wales & mine. I serv’d at the Divizes seven & eight years freely may the Lord pitty & forgive him. His whole life is division for the dissenters. All I could wish is that this chapel may be served by a rotation of ministers agreed upon that as I do not stir out this would be my one only wish for myself & that R H might never be admitted to have any part lott or services & this during my life. Could this be managed my all after my death lest in & for the services of the gospel that naked I came into the world so would I go out having nothing yet possessing all things. My present views of comfort are only thus to become the whole burnt offering of Jesus Christ. May the Lord enable you to set about this & dispense the wise & righteous the simple & humble spirit by which only in the Lord’s hands all is well accomplished. I have so terrible a cold & ill, I can hardly hold up to write but at all times ever & ever your truly affectionate friend & devoted servant S:Huntingdon
Notes	Address panel wanting
Catalog Link	http://libcat.smu.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=197106
Unique Identifier	Huntingdon xxxx1790
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 23