I am instructed by the Committee of Arrangements to inform you, that the next annual meeting of the American Bible Society will take place in this City, on the second Thursday in May ensuing. In the name of the Committee & of the Managers, I have the honour to request your attendance on that interesting occasion, if not in too great a degree inconvenient to you. Should you be able to comply with this request, it would be very gratifying to all the friends of the Institution; & the countenance afforded it, by your presence at its anniversary, would be materially advantageous. Yet, should circumstances, which have constrained you to be absent on for<mutilated> occasions, still operate, & not permit us to have the pleasure of seeing <mutilated> with us at the approaching meeting, I beg leave to express to you the de<mutilated> Sense felt by the Committee & by the Managers, of the obligations the Society is under to you, in consequence of you holding the office of a Vice President, & their joy & gratitude, that, thro' the blessing of Divine Providence, so many of the most distinguished Characters in our Country have accepted & still fill the Offices of Presidents & Vice Presidents in the National Institution.

     Requesting your answer as early as may be convenient, I have the honour to be, very respectfully, Your Obt Sert