Letter.
Caption title.
First line of text on p. [1]: I proceed to execute the design I mentioned to you in my last, of putting on paper the considerations which have induced me to resolve on uniting myself to the Communion of the Roman Catholic Church ...
Signed on p. [4]: W.G. Ward.
Addressed on p. [1]: My dear --.
Following signature on p. [4] is a final line in italic type: My dear [blank], I forward you this letter, addressed to a friend, with the full confidence that you will neither allow it to go out of your possession, nor allow any one else to take a copy of it: as I am particularly anxious to keep it from the newspapers, until I have taken a definite step.