fol. 58.  MS. letter from George Walker, Nottingham, to William Wood, Leeds, 16 January 1790.

Dr Sr,

        I transmit you the printed copy of our Resolutions at Leicester, which you will perhaps think it right to print in your Paper at Leeds.  The Leicester Meeting passed a few separate Resolutions, among which was one declaring themselves to be a member of the District Association, and then they attended a Deputation from us inviting them to an union, and together formed one Meeting.

        Mr Parsons will give you some idea of the perfect unanimity which at length was accomplished in the whole business.  It was indeed a compleat triumph of wisdom and liberality over some prejudices which struggled for a while.  But it was a pleasant triumph, in which the mind acceded as well as submitted.  The Meeting was upon the whole the most interesting and agreeable that I ever attended.  A very respectable District Committee is established.  I am inclined to think from some information that we shall succeed in the Commons this Sessions, but we must appear in earnest, and by unanimity and vigorous exertions present that respectability to which alone we shall be indebted for success, whenever it shall be obtained.

                    Yrs Affectly

                                 G Walker

The Resolutions might have been more condensed, and expressed with more spirit.  Only two of them were composed by myself, together with some amendments & alterations of others.  But they are in general highly liberal, and a great acquisition.