Letter
To Samuel Furly (July 12, 1757)
To Samuel Furly
York
July 12, 1757
Dear Sammy,
July 12, 1757
Dear Sammy,
In all my experience I never knew one so much altered for the worse as Charles Perronet
1Orig., ‘C. P.’; see the concerns that JW expresses about him in letters to Nicholas Norton (Sept. 3, 1756), and Sarah Ryan (Dec. 14, 1757).
in so short a time. I am afraid that enemy is in real, actual possession of his understanding; though God, I hope, has still hold of his heart. Certainly, the conversing with him at present would not be profitable to you.
Nothing could be more seasonable than the notes you give me concerning Mary Bosanquet.
2Orig., ‘M. B.’.
I was just going to answer a letter from one who can say anything to her without offence.3Likely Sarah Crosby.
So that proper advice may be now4Orig., ‘may be now be’.
conveyed to her with great probability of success.
91
I hope you will write to Mr. Drake
5Samuel Drake; see 26:596, n. 9 in this edn.
without delay. He is in danger, for every possible snare is laid for him. His aunt here, Mrs. Dickens,6Telford (Letters, 3:220) corrects this to ‘Mrs. Dickson’, without giving a rationale.
has been of great service to him. He was hurried hence by his mother (a woman bitter of spirit) to keep him out of my way.
You may direct your next to me at Mr. Hutton’s
7George Stevenson described William Hutton as a ‘mercer and grocer, a man in good repute in the town’, with whom Wesley stayed when at Epworth; Memorials of the Wesley Family (London, 1876), 348.
in Epworth, Lincolnshire, by Thorne bag.
Dear Sammy, fight on!
Adieu.
Miss Tancred, a gay, giddy girl, a mere coquet, is put in the way of Mr. Drake. Warn him earnestly, to keep clear of her.
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