1822 THOMAS CHALMERS. Letter Thanking Rev. Andrew Thomson for his Eloquent Address.

A superb, but stereotypically barely legible letter from Thomas Chalmers. 

Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847) was a towering figure in 19th-century Scottish history, celebrated as a minister, political economist, professor, and the primary leader of the Disruption of 1843, which established the Free Church of Scotland. During his famed ministry at St. John’s Parish in Glasgow between 1819 and 1823, Chalmers gained national renown for pioneering an influential, decentralized system of urban poor relief based on community care and parochial management rather than state taxation.

This 1822 letter dates to the height of this celebrated Glasgow experiment, capturing him at a pivotal moment in his career just before his transition to the Chair of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews in 1823.  The present addressed to another prominent Scottish divine, Rev. Andrew Thomson

Glasgow Half Past Three. April 25, 1822.

My dear Sir,

I have just heard your able and eloquent discourse - not being able to . . . Church till the commencement of it - and obliged to hurry away at its conclusion. I go off to home after an early dinner.

I meant to offer you what you would require from me at the time of the assembly. I did not  that it would have been at *** object to you to have offered it *** openly or I would have done it.

Believe me
My dear Sir
Yours with **** regards esteem.
Th. Chalmers

Lacking top blank half of the rear bifolium, not affecting the letter.