| Description | The document relating to the Reverend James Yates was never in the bundle, as suggested on the original label, whilst the remainder is listed as follows:
1. Letter from John Reynell Wreford, to 'My Christian Friends', dated 7 June 1826 [date added later in pencil], re acceptance of request to accept the office of pastor.
2. Folded sheet containing two letters, the first containing Thomas Madge's reply to the Reverend John Kentish declining an invitation to leave Grey Street for the New Meeting, 13 March 1826, and a letter from the Reverend John Kentish, the Woodlands, to Thomas Belcher, Chairman of the New Meeting Vestry Committee, dated 13 March 1826, re communication of resolution of Vestry Committee to Thomas Madge.
3. Letter from the Reverend Samuel Bache, Fairview House, [Birmingham], to an unknown recipient, dated 11 April 1853, recommending Mrs Horn, residing in the Almshouses on Park Street, a proper person to be placed on a Pension List, pending a recommendation by the committee.
4. Letter from [Robert] N. Philips, Chairman of the Committee of Manchester College, to the Reverend Samuel Bache, Birmingham, dated 26 May 1853, re acknowledgement of £19 5s 6d collected by the New Meeting House on behalf of the College.
5. Letter from Mr R.L. [Frew] to the Reverend Samuel Bache, dated 21 April 1859, re lending of a bundle of papers connected with the earlier history of the New Meeting House, Birmingham [1 letter with one envelope].
6. Certification referred to the Superintendent Registrar's District of Birmingham of the New Meeting House, Moor Street, Birmingham (no. 46 on register) re solemnisation of marriages in the church building, undated [c1856 - 1862].
7. Wrapper for nos. 1 - 6 above. |