C[hurch] M[issionary] H[ouse] London, Sep.12/[18]16
My Dear Sir
	Under date of the 5th I wrote you at large, and committed the Letter, with one for Mr Kendall, and the Invoice & Bill of Lading of an Investment by the Sir Wm Bensley, to Mrs Cawthorne a passenger by that vessel. As the delay of her sailing has given me an opportunity of addressing a few lines to Mr Hall, I have availed myself of it; and beg you after reading the preceding papers to enclose them to him when you have opportunity.
I send this through the Post office. It will go, I presume, by the Sir Qm Bensley; and will apprise you of what we have sent by that ship, should my dispatches, by any chance, miscarry.
I am, ever Dear Sir
Affectionately yours
(Signed) 	Josiah Pratt