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      To The Rev. W. J. Fox. R Reverend Sib, M...

      To the Rev . W . J . Fox . r Reverend Sib , Madrast _, \& th July * _* 1883 . I , received on the 24 th of last month , a letter , dated 20 tfi of February , this year , with 300 rupees , from the Rev . Dr . _Thoinns Rees . In that letter , the receipt of my first and second letters to you are acknowledged , and I hope others will come to you in the same way .

      I have enclosed the receipt of my printer in my letter to Dr . Thomas Rees w _i nder date 14 th May last . My last Tract that was printed off , is , A Dialogue between an Idolist and a Worshiper of God : to which are added , a Brief Historv of the Corruption _^ of Christianity , with its Reformation ; some Account of Kammohun _* s Roy ' s Unitarianism , his Precepts of Jesus , and of

      its Defences ; with a List of _Mistranslations and False Readings of our Tamul Scriptures of the New Testament . Fifty copies are bound ; forty of them are in circulation , but chiefly gratis . A copy of it I shall send to you , to be laid before the respectable Unitarian Committee , as soon as I can get a person to take it . Copies of most of my printed tracts before the last , I have already sent .

      By the blessing of our heavenly Father , jand by the lively encouragement and helps from our highly-respected Unitarian friends , things have now begun to be in a better posture with us than they were six years back . The printed tracts in our own language are great blessings : they encourage my brethren much , and promote inquiry in others . They travel up into the country . They are gone as far as Hydrabad and Bangalore , and perhaps to other parts .

      We are all pretty well . My health has been pretty good this year . Every thing goes on quietly . I have already , in my letters to you , and to the Rev . Dr . Thomas Rees , given my reasons for having ventured to print some of my tracts before I had a supply of cash for that purpose . For the future , I shall keep close to the instructions contained in the Rev . Dr . T . Rees ' s last letter .

      I have nothing further now to add , but beg leave to remain , with gratitude to all our friends and benefactors , Your obedient Servant , WILLIAM ROBERTS , Near Lunatic Hospital , Parsewaukutn , Madras .

      To The Rev. W. J. Fow. Reverend Sir, Mad...

      To the Rev . W . J . Fow . Reverend Sir , Madras , 13 / A October , 1823 . My last letter to you is under date of 15 th July last , in which I have acknowledged the receipt of the Rev . Dr . Thomas Rees _' s letter with _j _£ 30 ( 300 rupee 3 ) . After that , on the 3 rd of this month , without any letter , 208 rupees , 11 annas , and 1 pui , was sent to me from Messrs . Arbuthnot and Co ., as per order received from the Rev . Dr . Thomas Rees . On the 11 th of August last , Mr . Gumming , a passenger to Calcutta in

      the ship Sophia , sent for me , and inquired about my affairs and the welfare of our congregation . After my having given the required information , I wished Mr . dimming to come to our Chapel on the following Sunday , that , after seeing our little congregation , he may have something , as an

      eye-witness , to inform our respectable benefactors : to which he agreed ; but , to our regret , the ship sailed much sooner . From Mr . Cumming I have received a set of Moral Tracts that was sent to me by the Christian Tract Society - _> and I have put into his hand my last printed tract , the Dialogue , & c , to be forwarded to England by the first opportunity . Some time ago , I have copied from the Christian Reformer , and sent it to the Rev . W . Adam , the Questions to Trinitarians ; the Death of Christ a clear

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 1, 1824, page 28, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/smrp_01061824/page/4/