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The shortness of the notice we have received admits not
our calling together our Brethren, but Mr Hardcastle, 
Rayner & I beg you to send us by Capt Blyth your Journals,
and whatever you may have collected of any Kind for the
Society. we wish you to assist Capt. B - in any thing he
may have need of you, & hope if he should return before
or after our precious Argosie, that he will bring a report to
strengthen our Hands, & encourage other Labour to go
forth into the Harvest, The very communication that may
happily be thus established will be for you & us a mutual
blessing & comfort.

All outward matters you will hear from
your countrymen perhaps even to some of them your
labours may be blessed. 

I have thro mercy to tell you of the health
& zeal of all our missionary Brethren, not one of them
I think has been lost during the last year, all of your
friends & relatives of whom I have heard and know
continue in good health and in country and town wait
to hear of a blessing upon you.

Mrs Wilson has brought a son &
is well, & gone down to her friends ----

What the issue of our embro[iled]
affairs in Europe may be God only knows I have often
thought the Isles of the South may be a happy refuge
from the Days of Evil, we know & feel indeed  our own:
we hope to hear you are covered from the power &

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fear of Evil.

my poor old Bones still hang together & I am
not at all disabled yet for the work, which I am making
haste to finish because the time is Short ~

We shall desire Capt Blyth 
furnish you with any thing he can spare, and you
may want, for which you will give him Credit upon us,
if you cannot by supplying his wants make a mutually
advantageous Exchange.

It gives me peculiar satisfaction now
near the end of my Journey - to depart in the reviving Hope
that you brethren, are sent to usher in the great day of
the Lord by turning the disobedient unto the Wisdom of the
Just, & as we probably may never meet, till our work is done
and we stand before the Throne to give an account of ourselves
To the great Shepherd & Bishop of Souls. if I go "before you", I shall
at his right hand wait for & welcome you with delight & if
any of you get the start of me & reach the Goal before me,
I hope, I shall hobble after you, & that we shall eternally
rejoice together, and how momentary, how insignificant
every other consideration?

The Lord bless & keep you, & lift
up the light of his countenance upon you, & fill you with
Joy & peace in believing! The Blood is speaking before the
Throne, and I trust in our consciences sealed by the Holy
Ghost unto the day of Redemption - Finally, Brethren