Hill farm, Frooms Hill Ledbury. Herefordshire, March 25th 1840 Elder W. Richards Dear Brother. May grace, preace, strength, faith & victory, rest upon you & Sister Richards from God our father & our Lord Jesus Christ. Dear Brother ^it^ is amid peculiar feelings that I take up my pen to address you this morning. I have so many things in my mind at this time that I wish to communicat & so little time & room to do it in that I hardly know whare to begin or how to ...

bounded into the water to me stark naked excecpting a loose cloth around their legs but I put a stop to all disorder as fast as possible. & again I am Having a mighty struggle against this [Methodist] power of falling down like a dead man stiff as a stake which is in some of the preachers as well as the people. I have to handle all these things in wisdom. among the number that I have & are Baptzing are some large farmers having 3 or 400 acres of land I have Baptzed sone constables as well as ...

but being gone longer than I expected your letter arived & was opened by Brother Turley. But I have sent orders for no more letters to be opened that are sent to me. And with regard to the question you asked me on the scrap of paper. (I say yes let them eat or drink what they will in such cases) I should be pleased Brother Richards to hear from you often & give me all the news you have from any quarter I was pleased to hear of doors being opened in

Mr Willard Richards Meadow Street Newhouse opposite No 3 Preston Lancashire [stamp in red ink] LEDBURY MR 26 1840 [unknown writer] [sideways text] Hill farm - Ledbury. Woodruff Mach 25, -40 Answerd March 27. –