{"id":"jw/letters/1763/26-to-christopher-hopper","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"26 To Christopher Hopper","title_alt":[],"text_basis":null,"date_composed":null,"date_precision":"unknown","date_note":null,"numbering":{"bicentennial":null,"jackson_running":null,"sugden":null},"source_edition":{"editor":null,"title":null,"edition":null,"place":null,"publisher":null,"year":null,"volume":null,"pages":null,"scan_url":null,"scan_page_ids":null},"transcription":{"derived_from":null,"corrected_against_scan":false,"corrector":null,"corrected_on":null},"modernization":"none","license_text":"Public Domain Mark 1.0","license_apparatus":"CC BY 4.0","wikidata":null,"prev":null,"next":null,"part_of":"jw-letters","editorial_note":null,"source_id":"jw-letter-1763-26-to-christopher-hopper","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1763-26-to-christopher-hopper-000"],"word_count":193,"themes_auto":["christology","free-will","social-holiness"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1763-26-to-christopher-hopper-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1763-26-to-christopher-hopper-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1763-26-to-christopher-hopper","source_title":"26 To Christopher Hopper","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Christopher Hopper Date: WELLING, November 2, 1763. MY DEAR BROTHER, 'Dundee,' you say, 'would be thankful for a preacher.' But who would give him things needful for the body He cannot live upon air; and we now expect that Scotland should bear its own burthen. John Hampson Hampson was a popular preacher. He remained in Manchester, where the account-book for Dec. 27, 1762, and March 28, 1763, notes payments of 3 3s. to him; in Dec. it is 2 2s. In April and Dec. 1764, 3 3s.; in July 3 13s. 6d. you must think of no more. But I doubt our Newcastle friends are out of all patience for want of R. Roberts. See letter of Sept. 3. In spring you will need a fourth preacher. But what would he have to do Why, then, I think you must get the plat without Cannongate. 'The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof.' Sevenpence halfpenny! Pshaw! Let it be eightpence, even money. By-and-by we may give Mr. Trail more work. O let us work in this fruitful season! We join in love to Sister Hopper and you. I am Yours affectionately.","word_count":193,"source_url":null,"themes":["christology","free-will","social-holiness"],"created_at":"2026-01-29T20:02:14.337861"}]}