[ Translator of the New Testament ] Autograph Letter Signed "W Williams" to the publisher of his translation of the New Testament, John Stockdale, attacking printing errors and problems with communications.

One page, 8vo, good condition. "Repeated disappointment has for 3 weeks past attended the several journies [sic] from this country house to our Post Town some 4 miles off.- I hoped [?] I was promised truly, sheets shd be sent out of London on Wednesdays & Saturdays, nothing since ye fifth sheet has reached me! - altho' even yt teaches me that it is needful for me to receive specimen sheets; for a Table of errors to be formed for ye end of ye work; seeing that on ye last sheet arrived hither, Mat.19.4. Creater ([e" underlined] instead of Creator ["or" double underlining]. And in perusing the sheets delibersatley, as they come hither in succession, additional notes & remarks occur necessary for the mass od Readers,tho not for adepts in Greek - You may also will [sic] conceive yt I am anxious to know how yr work goes on. | Do you publish a Catalogue? I should like to have one - Parcels sent to me by Carrier to Carmarthen & Pembroke, come safe [address given]".Note: Catalogue entry, National Library of Wales, for the published work says " A modern, correct, and close, translation of the New Testament : with occasional observations... / by the author of the "Christian code" and "Primitive history" [i.e. William Williams of Chichester?]." The COPAC entry for "Christian Code" says the book is by "an old graduate of Cambridge2.