I received your kind letter of [22 April/torn]1 last, & soon after had the pleasure of [placing?/torn] your name on the list of life Subscribers to the New York Sunday School Union Society.

The endeavours of this Society have been Succeeded beyond expectation. The Schools continue as flourishing as they were in the Summer. The improvement in the manners of hundreds of children from indigent, depraved & miserable families, is visible to every eye; & in a number of them there are very hopeful appearances of piety. Allow me to send you the three first numbers, & as they are published, the Succeeding numbers, of the Sunday School Repository, which may contain information interesting to you.2

Indulge me also in conveying to you, from the Depository of the Peace Society in this City, those Nu[mbe]rs of the Friend of Peace which have appeared since April;3 & a work on the same subject addressed to Govr. Strong. Whether it shall appear to you that these works contain sufficient reasons for the principles which they avow, or otherwise, I cannot but think you will approve the spirit in which they are written, & find [in] them many traits of that Charity which “vaunteth not itself—thinketh no evil.”4

I hope you will not think me tro[ublesome / torn] in sending these papers to you, nor re[gard my / torn] doing so as arising from any other than a humble desire to contribute to the recreations & solaces of venerable age, retired from the confusions of the world & consecrated to religion. There are so few examples of this, that it might justly be thought a priveledge and happiness, to afford entertainment, even for a vacant hour, of one whose mind has been elevated by Christianity above the objects upon which the views of most men terminate, and whose regards for the offices of piety & the concerns of another world, bespeak a glorious hope, & shed a lustre upon the evening of life which cannot fail to be observed from afar.

The accompanying letter to the Secretary of the Charitable Society5 I shall be obliged to you to communicate. Respectfully, your obedient Servant,