To Christopher Hopper Date: ROTHERHAM, July 25, 1774. MY DEAR BROTHER, It was not two or three or a few inconsiderable people who desired that Billy Hunter might stay another year at York, but the stewards and the leaders and the most considerable persons both in respect of grace and understanding. I was agreeably surprised by the account they gave of him, as I had conceived him to be not the best, though not the worst, of our preachers. See that Brother Hudson bring all the accounts. Don't you remember last Conference, on my scrupling his staying another year at Bristol, Jo. Pawson flatly refused to travel at all So I suppose he would do now, were he not to be at Leeds. 'And what should I lose by that' Nothing. But he might lose more than ever he would regain. I am, with love to Sister Hopper, Your affectionate friend and brother.