From Conrad Kupper   16 Sept 1847

Halifax | 16 Sept. 1847.

My Dear Mr Tyndall,

I had the pleasure of receiving your very kind letter¹ from the 22 [inst] and thank you very much that you kept me so well in memory and honoured so very soon after your arrival with your agreeable news. I am very glad that you are content with your new situation.² Of course it cannot feel so agreeable as if your brothers³ there had views and principles like yours, but nevertheless it is nothing what does make unhappy considering the great multitude which is walking yet in darkness and blindness and whose oppositions minds like ours have continually to meet. If the result of our trouble has not been rewarded in proportion to those of our opposers,⁴ who keep with little labour and wrong principles their inexperienced and not thinking fellow-men on their side, we have that advantage that men like ours value 50% more than theirs and that each of them has so much more influence upon his fellow-men because we act by principle after being perfectly convinced of our sake. Our opposers, on the contrary, are not able to work upon men by reason and principle, but merely by what they have heard and what they are told, and in the same time a great deal does not believe in what they pretend to be. The painful and responsible situation of trust is very easy to imagine, also those who leave themselves at their care, but there is a good time coming. It cannot remain long time in that way. I should feel very much obliged if you were so kind as to send me an extract of philosophical delivery.

Mr Hall has returned. He felt very sorry when he got to know you had left. There lived an independent preacher⁵ for about a fortnight in the room which you formerly occupied. I got very soon acquainted with him, and also in a short time very familiar in changing our opinions on different subjects. Some very interesting conversations we had. You will imagine I was very careful in speaking to him about religion. He was not able to contradict one of my views which I clearly expressed several times. He was a more liberal thinking man than most probably we had not agreed with each other without him using reason.

I had yesterday very agreeable letters from home; my brother⁶ is quite well and charged me to remember him to you – his wife⁷ is also very well, she got delivered from a daughter⁸ during the time her husband was in England. ¼ of an hour before he left I got a letter with that agreeable news, so that I was just able to make him acquainted with it. He wept for joy, deeply regretting of his being from home, but it was impossible to alter – what he only could do and what he did also was to hasten home without any delay. His happiness was in the highest degree when he found his wife and his little daughter perfectly well. In a fortnight he is going to Berlin, Breslau, Leipzig and Russia.

You will be so kind as to excuse it that I have waited such a long time before I answered your very kind letter. Next time I will be more punctually in that respect. I shall be most happy in hearing very soon from you.

Mrs Ginty has been here some time ago. By George, she is one of the most agreeable women I ever saw in my life. Had she not been married I would have fallen in love with her, there is almost no doubt in it.

I was on that ball which was given in honour to Mr Edwards⁹ and enjoyed it very much. I have ….¹⁰ but excuse in telling it not.

Halifax is always the good old town, as a certain gentleman¹¹ whom you know very well foolishly says – nothing essential has happened.

I was several times obliged to put Mr Wright on the right way – he was behaving worse than ever. Yesterday I had him and his wife until about midnight in my room, and after his wife had gone I remained with him till 2 o’clock when in the meanwhile I gave him some earnest instructions as well as some well deserved reproaches. I like always to hope there might be a possibility of a reconciliation.

Believe me yours truly, | Conrad Kupper.

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