Part letter from Edward Pease, Street, Somerset, to Henry Pease, advising the latter to keep his anxieties about his and his wife, Anna’s, health ‘within as limited bounds as possible, they are apt to be exhaustingly luxuriant’; giving Henry advice on his ‘future dwelling’; discussing ‘Church rate matters’: ‘from dear Joseph accot recd yesterday at Bridgewater Somerset would appear the rate will be carried – let that half of the Parish which has opposed but suffer the magistrates (if they will do it) make out warrants against them they will be bold and unprincipled Church wardens who will dare to execute them’; referring to railway concerns: ‘I notice that Plews has wrote to the GrN of ERW this is probably at the instance of the B.- may say my mind revolts at such conduct – if an accountant was employd to examine their accot with the S & D I think it would be found they had no such feelings (tho’ with much cause) for themselves as they exercise toward thy Brother I am glad he takes it so patiently as not I hope to warm any blood above temperate’; assuring Henry that his business affairs are of interest to him; exhorting him be mindful of his Christian faith; discussing his intention of visiting Bristol, Frenchay, Gloucestershire and the Potteries Staffordshire to hold meetings; describing his enthusiastic reception at Taunton, Somerset, from R. Ball, his wife and family; discussing the monthly meeting at Street; describing a slight indisposition ‘a rheumatic spasmodic feeling from the right breast to near the shoulder’ and his daughter Rachel’s being courted by R. Fry; announcing the likelihood that they will go to Liverpool Lancashire, after their stay in the Potteries, 1 November 1837 – From: Quaker families of Darlington,Pease family, Henry Pease (1807 – 1881), Correspondence