Robert Keen, letter, to Nathaniel Whitaker, 1767 November 30
Date30 November, 1767
Call Number767630.4
abstractKeen reports on Occom’s illness and return to London, and encourages Whitaker to continue the rest of the tour alone.
handwritingHandwriting is formal, clear and legible. The trailer appears to be in Whitaker's hand.
paperMedium-sized sheet is in good-to-fair condition, with light-to-moderate staining, creasing and wear that results in a minor loss of text.
inkBrown-black.
signatureThe signature is abbreviated.
noteworthyThere are ink spots sprinkled throughout that are easily confused with punctuation.
EventsFundraising Tour of Great Britain
Bank bills of £20 each & a Bill on Thos Cloake 10 days
after date £42 Total valu in ye above letter. £82 with
the Accots to Ten
‐morrows post — — I was surpriz'd to see M:r Occom on Wednesday
last when as I told him you were to meet him ye next day
at Tunbridge wells — he said he had left word for you; but
I find you were not acquainted withit — I askd him how he
came not to meet you at Tunbridge wells & then have come to
London — he said he found himself very poorly & had a fever
on him then — — he went pretty early to Bed & as D:r Sparks &
I din'd with Mr Whitefield he came whilst we were there about 2
o'Clock —Dr Sparks sent him something to take & some sack whey
was made him & he lay in his old lodging — I saw him on
Saturday & he look'd pretty well in the parlour below — he
made an engagement to come about 5 o'Clock this afternoon
to my house to drink Tea & Sup with us & go home about ½ after 9
—I've just now sent to know how he does & why he did not come?
my Lad brings me word he was but poorly but thinks he shall be
better on ye morrow & will then come & dine with me — — if he had been
here to night 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 ye 2 weeks
you can do it as well without him & it will be a pity to miſs any
places that you can accomplish in that time — you and I must
bear the burden & I dare say have had more of it to our share
then all the rest put them altogether — but it is for God, & the pleasur[gap: worn_edge][guess: e]
we have had to see the cause prosper has greatly overballanc'd all
our trouble & fatigue — your friends here will be glad to see you
at ye end of this Tour —as it will be then 9 months since you left londo[gap: worn_edge][guess: n]
heard before now Vizt S:r 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 Jarr'd with another — tho' Mr Robarts said he
heard otherwise at Bristol — Remember me kindly to
Mr Bradbury & his Lady — we often remember them at Mr Wests
where we are to be To Morrow Evening — dear Mr Brewer is to be
at our Annual meeting at the Kings head in ye poultry and our
worthy friend Mr Whitefield is to meet them in his room — I shall send
my Money to ye 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 & believe me to be dr Sr