Manuscript letters to both men from prominent evangelicals, together with letters from Bull to Newton

Item author: John Henry Newton and William Bull
Item date: 1753 - 1804
Grant Value: 2,500
Item cost: 14,500
Item date acquired: 1995
Item institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London

453 letters, 121 letters to Newton, the remainder mainly to Bull, a Congregational Minister at Newport Pagnell. The writers include John Berridge, Claudius Buchanan, John Johnson, John Ryland, John Thornton, Hannah Wilberforce and George Whitefield. There are 24 letters from Bull to Newton and an early 19th century transcript of Newtons diaries for the years 1752 - 56, his last years at sea as a slaver and of his conversion and settlement on shore