'Williams,' to whom it was written, lay in our jail and professed to have been converted, and Rev.Mr .-- --, the chaplain, had great faith in the genuineness of the change--as much as one can have in any such case.
The letter was sent to one of our ladies, who is a Sunday-school teacher,--sent either by Williams himself, or the chaplain of the State's prison, probably.

She has been greatly annoyed in having so much publicity, lest it might seem a breach of confidence, or be an injury to Williams.

In regard to its publication, I can give no permission; though if the names and places were omitted, and especially if sent out of the country, I think you might take the responsibility and do it.
It is a wonderful letter, which no Christian genius, much less one unsanctified, could ever have written.

As showing the work of grace in a human heart, and in a very degraded and wicked one, it proves its own origin and reproves our weak faith in its power to cope with any form of wickedness.
'Mr.Brown' of St.Louis, some one said, was a Hartford man.

Do all whom you send from Hartford serve their Master as well?
P.S .-- Williams is still in the State's prison, serving out a long sentence--of nine years, I think.