I received yours of the
28th
instant
enclosing 2
Bank bills of £20 each and a Bill on
Thomas Cloake 10 days
after date £42 Total value in the above letter. £82 with
the accounts to
Tenterden
to all which I shall acknowledge To‐
‐morrows post —
— I was surprised to see
Mr. Occom on Wednesday
last when as I told him you were to meet
him the next day
at
Tunbridge wells
— he said he had left word for you; but
I find you were not acquainted with it — I asked him how he
came not to meet you at
Tunbridge
wells
and then have come to
London — he said he found himself very
poorly and had a fever
on him then — — he went pretty early to Bed and as
Dr. Sparks
and
I dined with
Mr. Whitefield he came whilst we were there about 2
o'Clock
—
Dr. Sparks sent him something to take and some sack whey
was made him and he lay in his old lodging — I saw him on
Saturday and he looked pretty well in the parlour below — he
made an engagement to come
about 5 o'Clock this afternoon
to my house to drink Tea and Sup with us and go home about ½ after 9
—I've just now sent to know how he
does and why he did not come?
my Lad brings me word he was but poorly but thinks he
shall be
better on the morrow and will then come and dine with me — — if he had been
here tonight he should have wrote you a letter himself or a part in
this — if he
should be better I thought he should meet you at least on
Friday Evening at
Canterbury — but if you can pursue the 2 weeks
route you mention without him, do … and then come
yourself to
London — perhaps
you can
do it as well without him and it will be a pity to miss any
places that you can accomplish in that time — you and I must
bear the burden and I dare say have had more of it to our share
then all the rest put them
altogether — but it is for God, and the pleasur
[gap: worn_edge][guess: e] we have had to see the cause prosper has greatly overbalanced all
our trouble and fatigue — your friends here will be glad to see you
at the end of this Tour —as it will be then 9 months since you left
londo[gap: worn_edge][guess: n]
it has pleased God to remove by death which I suppose you hav
[gap: worn_edge][guess: e] heard before now viz
Sir
Charles Hotham — all the others are
pure well, met together last week and are quite harmonious — neve
[gap: worn_edge][guess: r] any one disagreed or jarred with another — though
Mr. Robarts said he
heard otherwise at
Bristol — Remember me kindly to
Mr. Bradbury
and
his Lady — we often remember them at
Mr. Wests
where we are to be tomorrow Evening — dear
Mr. Brewer is to be
at our Annual meeting at the
Kings head in the
poultry and our
worthy friend
Mr. Whitefield is to meet them in his room — I shall send
my
Money to the
Kings head but propose to be at
Mr. Wests —
Mr. Brewer may perhaps get time enough to conclude with prayer
— let me
hear from you as often as convenient and believe me to be dear
Sir