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Title	Letter to [The Revd. Mr. Thomas Haweis]. Salutation: ''My dear kind Friends.''
Post Date	June 9, 1790
Author	Huntingdon, Selina Hastings, Countess of, 1707-1791.
Recipient	Haweis, Thomas, 1734-1820.
Date	1790-06-09
Physical Description	4 pgs total; 2 pgs text; 2 pgs blank; address panel wanting
Dimensions	23 x 38 cm.
Address From	Spa Fields, London
Country From	England
Transcriber	Wanda Smith
Plain Text Transcription	Letter 125 [Handwritten – June 9, 1790] [Address panel wanting] My dear kind Friends How does your faithful & tender attentions for the poor old drooping and much tired widow oblige me. May the Lord reward you both with the best of his divine blessing. My heart revived like the corn that you did not refuse opening Zion Chapel, & tho it would go much against me to have you do the smallest thing you did not wholly approve yet as considered as my principal & justly deserved minister in Connection, I do wish that in that character no reserves might be, & this I may most faithfully assure you. Their love & respect does in heart & spirit give you the right hand of fellowship & with that honour you must highly claim with dear Glascott & yourself eight (Canniford nine) church ministers, viz[?] Rowlan Jones, Griffiths, Charles, Eyers, and Willims make the stand. Students young ministers in Connection & others eminent about three or four, will all be present. The letter from me to the congregtion have no care about. Ford may read it if you should not choose it. To the people it is absolutely needful to unite by mutual consent as that poor man W----'s enmity & bitterness I might add rage increases daily & will not admit even speaking to our people by any of his. A sinking man makes reeds his strength. Great & welcome news came last night from Wales. A union determined in the association with me of the most warm hearted kind, as acting as one for each [p. 2] other. I send you the entry on the eighteenth. Eyers will be at Bath & after him Mr Jones of Langan in his way to the General Meeting. I mean to face even deserved reproach from him for this request but to have the people flag in their zeal & life when your powerfull ministry leaves I must grieve for their loss, & I will venture upon Jones who for years his parting word has been, "Take notice I sink or swim with you" & I have never seen him fear or faint. Doctor Ford takes care of Swansea & our general remove I think will be well settled. Do my dear friend follow up Canniford & say to Glascott by letter from me all (tho not a thousand part) he deserves from my love to him or gratitude l owe him. Press his meeting you at the General Meeting. I shall with this as perhaps my last earnest request & two Sundays include my wishes. Timely notice will be given. I am tempted to great expence from the greatness of the stand & the beauty of the place. Above two hundred houses are building around & let before finished, so mightily will the Lord have his word prevail there. The spasms continue terribly but Hunter says without danger. All that gratitude & love can say to you both accept & as ever your devoted but most unworthy friend & servant S: Huntingdon Spa Fields June 9 1790
Notes	Address panel wanting
Catalog Link	http://libcat.smu.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=197084
Unique Identifier	Huntingdon 06091790
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 17