Donald Soper – SIGNED LETTER 1969
£25.00
A very good autograph letter from Douglas Soper, The Reverend the Lord Soper to Mr R. Allsop, Letchworth Methodist Circuit, 60, Redhoods Way West, Letchworth, Herts, dated 6th October 1969, typed on headed ivory writing paper – ‘WLM, Methodist Church, Kingsway Hall, London WC2 Telephone 01-405 3246, Superintendant Minister The Rev The Lord Soper MA PhD West London Mission, Circuit Stewards Mr Malcolm Spencer FPS, Prof Arthur Smailes MA DLit, Kingsway Creche, St Luke’s House, St Mary’s House, Grove House, Alfred Hartley House, Emerson Bainbridge House, Goodliffe House, Fellowship House, Katherine Price Hughes Hostel, Hopedene, WLM Clothing Store’ – with horizontal and vertical folds, signed in red ink, ink staining to the text and minor spotting verso.
In full: ‘Dear Mr. Allsop, Thank you for your letter of 2 October. We shall, of course, be only too pleased to welcome you and your group for worship. As you may know we have recently linked up with our local Anglican Church in Kingsway – Holy Trinity – for some combined services of worship, and as it so happens, our next united service will in fact be on 26 October and will be held in the Anglican Church. Needless to say, your group will be more than welcome, but it might be that you would prefer to come on a Sunday when you could worship at Kingsway Hall. For your guidance, we hold a united service at Holy Trinity on the fourth Sunday morning in the month. I regret that we cannot help with regard to lunch, but our Community Centre is open at Kingsway for refreshments before and after the evening service. Perhaps you will be good enough to let me know what you decide. With kind regards. Yours sincerely, Soper.’
Donald Soper (1903–1998), later Baron Soper of Kingsway, was a Methodist minister, socialist peer and celebrated open-air preacher. Superintendent of the West London Mission from 1936 to 1978, he made Christian social action his public vocation. The West London Mission, founded in 1887 by Hugh Price Hughes, embodied Methodism’s “Forward Movement”, combining preaching with social reform. After using St James’s Hall, Exeter Hall and Great Queen Street, it relocated to Kingsway Hall in 1912. The building served as a chapel, mission headquarters and, later, a celebrated recording venue. Under Donald Soper it became synonymous with open-air evangelism, Christian socialism, temperance, welfare work and vigorous public conscience in central London life.
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A very good autograph letter from Douglas Soper, The Reverend the Lord Soper to Mr R. Allsop, Letchworth Methodist Circuit, 60, Redhoods Way west, Letchworth, Herts, dated 6th October 1969, typed on headed ivory writing paper – ‘WLM, Methodist Church, Kingsway Hall, London WC2 Telephone 01-405 3246, Superintendant Minister The Rev The Lord Soper MA PhD West London Mission, Circuit Stewards Mr Malcolm Spencer FPS, Prof Arthur Smailes MA DLit, Kingsway Creche, St Luke’s House, St Mary’s House, Grove House, Alfred Hartley House, Emerson Bainbridge House, Goodliffe House, Fellowship House, Katherine Price Hughes Hostel, Hopedene, WLM Clothing Store’ – with horizontal and vertical folds, signed in red ink, ink staining to the text and minor spotting verso.
In full: ‘Dear Mr. Allsop, Thank you for your letter of 2 October. We shall, of course, be only too pleased to welcome you and your group for worship. As you may know we have recently linked up with our local Anglican Church in Kingsway – Holy Trinity – for some combined services of worship, and as it so happens, our next united service will in fact be on 26 October and will be held in the Anglican Church. Needless to say, your group will be more than welcome, but it might be that you would prefer to come on a Sunday when you could worship at Kingsway Hall. For your guidance, we hold a united service at Holy Trinity on the fourth Sunday morning in the month. I regret that we cannot help with regard to lunch, but our Community Centre is open at Kingsway for refreshments before and after the evening service. Perhaps you will be good enough to let me know what you decide. With kind regards. Yours sincerely, Soper.’
Donald Soper (1903–1998), later Baron Soper of Kingsway, was a Methodist minister, socialist peer and celebrated open-air preacher. Superintendent of the West London Mission from 1936 to 1978, he made Christian social action his public vocation. The West London Mission, founded in 1887 by Hugh Price Hughes, embodied Methodism’s “Forward Movement”, combining preaching with social reform. After using St James’s Hall, Exeter Hall and Great Queen Street, it relocated to Kingsway Hall in 1912. The building served as a chapel, mission headquarters and, later, a celebrated recording venue. Under Donald Soper it became synonymous with open-air evangelism, Christian socialism, temperance, welfare work and vigorous public conscience in central London life.
