{"id":"jw/letters/1783b/12-to-thomas-welch","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"B 12 To Thomas Welch","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-1783b-12-to-thomas-welch","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1783b-12-to-thomas-welch-000"],"word_count":106,"themes_auto":["catholic-spirit","free-will","universal-redemption"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1783b-12-to-thomas-welch-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1783b-12-to-thomas-welch-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1783b-12-to-thomas-welch","source_title":"B 12 To Thomas Welch","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Thomas Welch Date: BRISTOL, August 15, 1785. DEAR THOMAS, You seem to be the man I want. As to salary, you will have 30 a year; board, c., will be thirty more. But do not come for money. (1) Do not come at all unless purely to raise a Christian school. (2) Anybody behaving ill I will turn away immediately. (3) I expect you to be in the school eight hours a day. (4) In all things I expect you should be circumspect. But you will judge better by considering the printed Rules. The sooner you come the better. - I am Your affectionate brother.","word_count":106,"source_url":null,"themes":["free-will","catholic-spirit","universal-redemption"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T05:18:55.350428"}]}