repeated his visit on the next day but one, and again requested thee to see the two elders and the Friends who made the above statements which thou again declined. The elders from the different Monthly Meetings of the city were then convened and requested a private opportunity with thee, which thou also refused, yet the next day consented to meet them at a time and place of thy own fixing; but, when assembled, a mixed company being collected, the elders could not in this manner enter into business which they considered of a nature not to be investigated in any other way than in a select, private opportunity. They, therefore, considered that meeting a clear indication of thy continuing to decline to meet the elders as by them proposed. Under these circumstances, it appearing that thou art not willing to hear and disprove the charges brought against thee, we feel it a duty to declare that we cannot have religious unity with thy conduct nor with the doctrines thou art charged with promulgating. "Signed, Twelfth month 19, 1822. "CALEB PIERCE, "LEONARD SNOWDEN, "JOSEPH SCATTERGOOD, "S. P. GRIFFITHS, "T. STEWARDSON, "EDWARD RANDOLPH, "ISRAEL MAULE, "ELLIS YARNALL, "RICHARD HUMPHRIES, "THOMAS WISTAR." To this epistle Elias Hicks made the following reply, two days having intervened: "TO CALEB PIERCE AND OTHER FRIENDS: