Semple - History of the Baptists in Virginia - Landmark Baptist

RECOMMENDATORY LETTER.
THE following letter from Rev. Andrew Broaddus, Caroline, and Peter Nelson,
Esq., Professor of Wingfield Academy, Hanover, is so gratifying to the
feelings of the author that he cannot withhold from publication the
recommendation of men so capable of judging of the merits of such a work:
August 30, 1810.
DEAR SIR, — The examination of your “History of the Rise and Progress of the
Baptists in Virginia” has indeed been to us a pleasing task; not merely as it has
afforded us an opportunity of complying with the requisition of a friendship we
highly value, but from the manner in which the compilation is executed.
We are far from intending the complimentary style of recommendation when
we say that we consider this a truly valuable and well executed work. The style
is perspicuous, concise and well adapted to history, the arrangement clear and
happily calculated to prevent confusion, and the matter it contains highly
important and interesting to every friend of truth and piety.
We cannot conclude without congratulating you on the completion of an
undertaking so laborious as this has been, and the public on the acquisition of a
work calculated, in a considerable degree, to gratify the curious and inform the
inquisitive, as well as to promote the cause of true religion.
Accept the assurances of our friendship and esteem.
PETER NELSON.
ANDREW BROADDUS.