“Your papers have reached me in safety;--viz. 1st. a report for 1809. 2nd., the Agra books and papers. 3rd., the Bibliotheca Biblica &c. The ‘Translation library’ must prove highly useful. I have some of the books you have mentioned--A Golius, Dictionarium Arabicum, Schultens, Life of Saladin, Stillingfleet’s Origines Sacræ, Wells’s Geography, and others, which shall be sent down, if you please; except Golius, which is to be delivered to Martyn’s care on my arrival at Cawnpore. But the ‘Bible repository’ delights me. This is beyond all your other highly meritorious labours, for the benefit of the present generation. I shall send it round here, if I have time, but I have only eight days more here, and on my arrival at Agra will make it public. On receipt of the Report, I sent it to some acquaintance here. One sent it to a rich Native[60] in the city, who reads English; he has returned it with a _Hoondee_[61] for 100 rupees, and an address to the Bible Society. I shall, D. V. send it off to the Secretary in due form on Monday, and he may send it for publication; it appears to me an event that would interest at home, but you will judge when you see the whole. It has delighted me highly. I have been this week at Benares taking leave. E. is not yet arrived. The old gentleman there is most gracious always to myself, but is a raging bear behind my back against all our measures. It has called forth all my little energy to make the poor stand I have against his influence. The Church has been delayed under various pretexts twelve months, but the materials were collected. I made those efforts since March, and at length got permission to begin last week. Robinson undertook the superintendence as a last resource--and his offer was accepted. The gentleman, however, attacked him when the work was begun, and called me by name, Augustus Brooke, and the Salmons, fanatics, &c. I fear this will make E. less forward than he might otherwise have been, but I have left a few Bibles and Testaments at Wheatley’s for sale: most are already supplied. Though I have not sold one Bible, Robinson is anxious to get the Church ready by the time you arrive. You can find a congregation. Several families and some individuals spoke out on my coming away, the fulness of a gracious heart. I often think of an expression in a prayer of old Carey’s, in the pagoda, ‘that in the evening of your residence in India you might see the light of truth shine abroad.’ Your’s and his prayer are, I trust, heard. There will be a change in European India, yea there is a change; infidels are beginning to hide their faces, and the young are growing up at the different stations, with a reverence for the ways of God. I perceive the married