{"id":"jw/letters/1768/19-to-peggy-dale","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"19 To Peggy Dale","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-1768-19-to-peggy-dale","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1768-19-to-peggy-dale-000"],"word_count":187,"themes_auto":["catholic-spirit","social-holiness","works-piety"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1768-19-to-peggy-dale-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1768-19-to-peggy-dale-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1768-19-to-peggy-dale","source_title":"19 To Peggy Dale","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Peggy Dale Date: LIVERPOOL, April 7, 1768. MY DEAR PEGGY, I do not well understand what letter you mean. I have answered (if I do not forget) every letter which I have received. And I commonly answer either of you Herself or Miss Molly Dale. within a day or two. In this respect I do not love to remain in your debt. In others I must always be so; for I can never pay you the affection I owe. Accept of what little I have to give. Mr. Law does well to insist on those sister graces, lowliness, meekness, and resignation. A Serious Call to a Holy Life, xvi.- xxii. These one would most importunately ask of God. And, indeed, without them love is only a name. Let your faith thus work by love, and it will make you fruitful in every good temper and word and work. I hope to be at Glasgow on Wednesday the 19th instant; at Aberdeen the 28th; at Edinburgh May 5; at Newcastle on Friday, May 20. Peace be with your spirit! I am, my dear Peggy, Your affectionate brother.","word_count":187,"source_url":null,"themes":["social-holiness","works-piety","catholic-spirit"],"created_at":"2026-01-29T20:03:22.862484"}]}