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Letter to Brathis

by William Kelly

3 pages.

Transcript:


2 Kidbrooke Park Rd, Blackheath

Friday

My Dear Brother

   I am urged to go to Ramsgate for a meeting similar to yours on the 11th Inst.; but if you cannot conveniently adhere to the old thought of the latter days of March, I hold myself bound to be with you on Friday 11 April.  So weigh well & say.  I will [meantime] inform [dear].  [Mr Jull] that I have done what I could to meet both.  But I must consider Devonshire first.

[pg 2]

   I had a talk with two leading brethren of Clarendon Hall, one on Monday & the other on Tuesday at the labourer's monthly meeting.  They both told me that the N[ewton].A[bbot?]. decision as to W. Shawger [?] was read as usual at the prayer meeting, & that S. if he now presented himself wd not be received.  Of course no other course could be adopted [on] any [ground] of Scriptural Principle.  All feel here ^ as far as I know that J. Brown is a partisan, & without solid judgment, in this case at any rate.  So I think our dear G[C?]. Le S[ouef?]. must take the strong language for what it is worth.

[pg 3]

It shows that our meeting was felt; & none [can] say that there was not impartiality, patience, & the mildest? possible course suggested.

   I think it wd be desirable & a service to the Lord if some spare brother cd occasionally go down to N[ewton].A[bbot].  (I do not mean from Torquay, but from Exeter or any other place not so mixed up with the [qun] as T.)  This [might] [?help] our poor b[rethre]n & give an opportunity for [?].Taylor to be less[?] forward.

   Teignmouth is in danger of a false position.  May grace deliver the b[rethre]n  there.

Yours aff[ectionately] W. Kelly




Comments:
Michael Schneider said ...

Two details make it possible to date the letter:

  1. the address "Kidbrooke Park Road" – Kelly lived here from 1871 to 1874 (cf. Edwin Cross, The Irish Saint and Scholar, p. 55);
  2. the mention of "Friday 11 April" – within these four years, 11 April was a Friday only in 1873.

As for the transcription, the first two letters of the word transcribed as "spare" appear to be the same as those of the word transcribed as "ground"; I therefore suggest reading "grave" instead of "spare."

Saturday, Apr 12, 2025 : 07:13


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