From Wesley Swift (editor of the Wesley Historical Society) at 9 Ladywood Road, Roundhay, Leeds, to Lewis Court at Quarry Close, Hill View Road, Minehead, Somerset.
He was grateful for the copy of the catalogue of the collection which Court deposited at City Road, London. Swift has asked [Frank] Cumbers to write a paragraph about the collection for inclusion in the next volume of the proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society.
He is also hoping that Court will be able to give him some information about the Bible Christian female itinerant preacher Catherine Harris. In the 1873 minutes of Conference, she is described as a supernumary but Swift does not have any minutes later than that. He wants to know her date of death and if she remained a supernumary until the end of her life. If Court could lend him a copy of the obituary from the Conference minutes, it would be of great help.
Swift has collected information about all the Bible Christian female itinerants and this is the last piece of information which he needs.
Notes .
- Catherine Harris (1804-96) entered the Bible Christian ministry in 1825 and served for almost fifty years in home circuits. She disappears from the record in 1874 by which time she was the only woman superannuitant. Source: Beckerlegge