{"id":"jw/letters/1781a/17-to-miss-clarkson","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"A 17 To Miss Clarkson","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-1781a-17-to-miss-clarkson","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1781a-17-to-miss-clarkson-000"],"word_count":241,"themes_auto":["free-will","justifying-grace","social-holiness"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1781a-17-to-miss-clarkson-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1781a-17-to-miss-clarkson-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1781a-17-to-miss-clarkson","source_title":"A 17 To Miss Clarkson","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Miss Clarkson Date: NEAR CHESTER, April 5, 1781. MY DEAR MISS CLARKSON, Mr. Floyd John Floyd. See letter of March 31. informs me that you had sent me a letter, and wondered that I did not answer. You might well wonder, for it is a rule with me to answer every letter I receive. It would be particularly strange if I had not answered you, because I have so peculiar a regard for you. I love you because I believe you are upright of heart and because you are a child of affliction. I felt a near union of heart with you when I saw you last. I love to hear of you and to hear from you. Mr. Floyd tells me you have finished. the Six Letters; if you have, I shall be glad to see them. He tells me, too (if I understand him right), that you are attempting to turn the Death of Abel into verse. This will be an heavy work, such as will require a deal of time and patience. Yet if you begin, I trust our Lord will give you resolution to bring it to a conclusion. If I live to return to England, He was not able to go to Ireland. See letter of Feb. 20. I shall hope for the pleasure of a farther acquaintance with you. Wishing you an heart wholly devoted to God, I remain, my dear sister, Yours affectionately.","word_count":241,"source_url":null,"themes":["free-will","justifying-grace","social-holiness"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T05:16:27.581907"}]}