Letter from J. Harker, Bishop Auckland to Prudence Nightingale (Nee Hackworth)

Has received Timothy Hackworth’s autograph; refers to his (J Harker’s) lecture ‘Timothy Hackworth, the Methodist local preacher, and Father of the Locomotive’ and to Rev William Lawson (born at South Church, Bishop Auckland where Hackworth preached many a time) who wrote a book on local Methodist preaching but entered the Church of England.