Mifsion Rooms.
Broadway
24 July 18[46]
Gentlemen.
I have to acknowledge rec’t / of your communication of yesterday / desiring [in-?] of the vestry of St Bar- / tholomew’s Church, that I should take charge / of the parish, owing the par absence from / of the rector.
I beg to thank the vestry for this express- / ion of their confidence + to say in preply / that if there vestry be no objection to / my [supplying[ the pulpit [^ by substitute] for one or / it may be two Sundays, on in Aug’t / [only] which official duties may / [^ ?probably] require my absence, I will very cheerfully /
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Afsume the charges and the Do / meet any demands that my be con- / nected with it until the return of my / friend the Rev. Mr [Balch?] -
I am Gentlemen
In the [great]
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