Autograph letter signed : Watton, Hertfordshire, to Rev. J.W. Brooks, 1838 March 27.

Concerning a controversy surrounding the British and Foreign Bible Society, his reluctance to relinquish his connection with that organization despite his objections to the Society's non-ecumenical policies, protests recently sent from Hertfordshire and signed by "many leading members of this Auxiliary", his own position as a protester against a decision made in 1831 by the parent society (a probable reference to the 1831 controversy about Unitarians holding significant Society offices), and his ultimate decision to not break with the Society ("I dare not, in this limited day of grace, weaken by any farther steps that my simple testimony to what I hold to be truth, a Society which God has already largely used."); the anticipated publication of the recipient's "history of the Jew's" (i.e. Brooks's The history of the Hebrew nation : from its first origin to the present time. London : R.B. Seeley, 1841), and the growing interest in the subject of the Jewish people; letter closes with a suggestion that a "new edition of any practical guide to the prophecies is wanted", as "the Puseyites are floundering & stumbling & breaking on the stone of prophecy. Oh for a good Commentary on Revelations to dash all error in pieces! ... Elliot is bringing out one that will be a failure, if it is like what he told us here."