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.
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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.
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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
