From [Richard enry] Osborne at 31 Calton Road, Gloucester, to Lewis Court at Minehead in Somerset.
He is sending under a separate cover a number of items for Court's Bible Christian collection.
They have not met for a very long time, not since Court called when they were in Launceston. Osborne has however watched Court's career with great interest and considers that his prose and poetry are of a high quality.
He notes that Court entered the ministry three years before Osborne, although the two years that Osborne spent at Shebbear College would almost balance that out. Court cannot be far from his eightieth year and Osborne is aged seventy seven and beginning to feel his age. He has been afflicted for some time and he has received a stern doctor's warning to allow nothing to worry him, which is difficult to do in these days of high prices and insufficient salaries.
Reference is made to the death of Court's wife.
Following Osborne's superannuation, he came to this circuit and laboured for five years more until his health gave way in 1945.