{"id":"jw/letters/1773/60-to-john-valton","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"60 To John Valton","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-1773-60-to-john-valton","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1773-60-to-john-valton-000"],"word_count":149,"themes_auto":["assurance","catholic-spirit","works-mercy"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1773-60-to-john-valton-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1773-60-to-john-valton-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1773-60-to-john-valton","source_title":"60 To John Valton","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To John Valton BRADFORD (UPON AVON), September 29, 1773. MY DEAR BROTHER, All is well. Persons enough offer for the place To take charge of Wesley's Book-Room in London. See letters of Sept. 20 and Oct.20 who know it is easier by far than that of a merchant's clerk. Am in no haste to change. Probably I shall do nothing more till I come to London. You was present at the Conference, and heard what was then said concerning unqualified preachers. I think Rd. Packer Richard Packer came to London from Northamptonshire, was verted at the Foundery, and became a prosperous builder in Mile End. See Stevenson's City Road Chapel, pp. 477-8 is as weak as most. Yet he has been often useful; and, what is stranger, in several places they are fond of him! I am Your affectionate brother. I hope to be in town this day se'nnight.","word_count":149,"source_url":null,"themes":["works-mercy","assurance","catholic-spirit"],"created_at":"2026-01-29T20:06:55.578798"}]}