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letter from Robert Macdonald at Moelmyne , by which I understand that he has been to Calcutta and seen Rev . Mr . Adams , and another gentleman , Mr . G . H . Hough , and has given an account of his history at
Moelmyne , and having received books from them returned again , and he is now-bearing his-humble-testimony to the truth among the Burmese . We are all pretty well , and all things go on as usual . * Madras , Purseioaukum , 6 14 th June , 1831 /
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On the 21 st of last month I have received two letters of yours , the one dated 7 th December , 1830 , the other 5 th February , this year . In them the receipt of my letters of the 25 th June ancl 22 d of September , of my friends having placed my son Joseph under the care of the Rev . J . R . Beard of
Manchester , of the receipt of my works sent by Joseph , &c . are mentioned , Joseph has written to me of his having been very kindly received by all my friends ; I trust that by the Committee ' s kind- attention to his education , he will be made a useful instrument under their direction in this country .
By July this year , my printing expenses unavoidably exceeded beyond what is allotted for that purpose , and I thought I shall not be able to do any thing more this year . . My American friends' 502 . set me to work again ; accordingly , the remainder of my Verse and Prose against heathenism , I am getting printed .
' In the month of January this year , ( I have had one very severe attack omtferaa . The doctor advised me not to exert myself so much in writing as usual ; accordingly from that time , I have had a friend to write my English letters , See . In course of the
day I generally sit for hours in my swinging cot , ancl sometimes lie down keep swinging : in this state I read , converse with my friends , dictate what I wish to write , and sometimes heajj the echool-boyja lessors ; , by this
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means I find my complaint is neither severe , nor so often . If I had a person to write my Tamil dictations also , I would be still better , but the expenses of these will be more than I can afford .
' I have been subject to asthma more than thirty years , and had reeourse-to many-remedies ,-but-I-don" think any thing can equalize to a swinging cot . So , thanks be to God , I and my friends are pretty well . ' Madras , Pursewaukum , 1 27 th August , 1831 . '
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/ FROM THE SAME . To thefReverend Joseph Tuckerman , i , of Boston , U . S . ' Rpverend Sir , —Your very affectionate letter , dated 29 th of March , came to my hands on the 15 th of this month , which seems to have been too long in its coming .
* I have been acquainted with your name "through the Rev . Mr . Adam ' s memoir , and some of your Quarterly Reports to the American Unitariaii Association , which were sent to me with some tracts and fifty dollars , " by the Rev . Mr . Ezra S . Gannett , about three ) iears ago . The 50 Z . mentioned in your letter , was forwarded to me
by my English Unitarian friends , and I have received it here in the beginning of this month ; and I beg to return my grateful thanks for the same to your Association . I shall use them agreeable to the wish of the benevolent donors ;¦—particulars of the dis ^ bursements will be given in my regular accounts to Dr . Bo wring . 4
The letter that you have sent with mine to Abraham Chiniah , I have forwarded to him in mine of the 16 th instant , and acquainted him of the money I have received from you withal . ' I told him , that should he require a portion from it , I shall send him , if he will inform me the particular object to which it is required .
' I am now come to answer your queries , which are as follows : — 4 should be gted > to learn , of
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% < 2 UNITARIAN ? CHfcONICliE ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 1, 1832, page 22, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1807/page/6/
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