From Lois Deacon at 10 Upper Knollys Terrace, Alma Road, Plymouth, to Lewis Court.
She was grateful for the loan of the book and the precious letter, both of which she now returns. They were most interesting. As she thinks she has mentioned, the house where she is writing this, is practically on the site of "Mill Pleasant" from which William O'Bryan wrote the letter which she is returning and from where Deacon's ancestors went to their wedding.
As for her great aunt's memoir to her sister Julia Mason, it is sadly a little too full of piety to be informative about domestic matters. She has a feeling that Julia's brain fever may have been brought on by too much hard work after her conversion at an early age - she will not of course mention this in her book.
Finally, one more word about dates. She has looked at the records again and has found that William Mason was appointed to Kingsbrompton with [Mary] Ann Soper and Ann Guest in August 1822, and that according to her journal Mary Hewitt first heard Bible Christian preaching in a cottage in her neighbourhood on October 10th 1822, although she was not in fact converted until the 13th March 1823 when her future husband William Mason was in Monmouth.
She trusts that Court will enjoy his visit to London.
Notes .
- Ann Arthur Guest entered the Bible Christian ministry in 1820 and served in many circuits around the country before disappearing from the record in 1841. She was married to James Brooks (1789-1854), President of Conference in 1838. Source: Beckerlegge
- Mary Ann Soper entered the Bible Christian ministry in 1819, and disappears from the record in 1822. Source: Beckerlegge