{"id":"jw/letters/1775/01-to-martha-chapman","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"01 To Martha Chapman","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-1775-01-to-martha-chapman","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1775-01-to-martha-chapman-000"],"word_count":144,"themes_auto":["free-will","reign-of-god","trinity"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1775-01-to-martha-chapman-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1775-01-to-martha-chapman-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1775-01-to-martha-chapman","source_title":"01 To Martha Chapman","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Martha Chapman Date: LUTON, January 11, 1775. MY DEAR SISTER, I hope with God's help to be at Newbury on, Thursday, March 2; and to have the pleasure of seeing you there, unless something unforeseen should hinder. You have lately had a wintry season at Watlington: now expect the return of spring. Beware you are not weary or faint in your mind! Even bodily weakness may you to this; especially when there appears to be no increase, but rather a decay, of the work of God. Yet I do you apprehend you are yet at liberty to remove from Watlington. Cannot Hannah Ball step over for two or three days and kindle a flame among you If she does not come, look for One greater than her. How soon It may be before you see another day. I am, dear Patty, Yours affectionately.","word_count":144,"source_url":null,"themes":["trinity","free-will","reign-of-god"],"created_at":"2026-01-29T20:07:52.355590"}]}