{"id":"jw/letters/1784b/14-to-his-niece-sarah-wesley","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"B 14 To His Niece Sarah Wesley","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-1784b-14-to-his-niece-sarah-wesley","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1784b-14-to-his-niece-sarah-wesley-000"],"word_count":174,"themes_auto":["pneumatology","social-holiness","works-mercy"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1784b-14-to-his-niece-sarah-wesley-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1784b-14-to-his-niece-sarah-wesley-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1784b-14-to-his-niece-sarah-wesley","source_title":"B 14 To His Niece Sarah Wesley","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To his Niece Sarah Wesley Date: BRISTOL, September 8, 1784. DEAR SALLY, - You do well to let me know when there is anything wherein it is my power to serve you. But I find you are not much acquainted with poor folks. You must make a little money go a great way among them unless you had a thousand a year. In common I myself gave but sixpence or a shilling to one person (nay, and a nobleman generally does no more). The case must be very peculiar; otherwise I do not rise so high as half a crown, else my stock would soon be exhausted. 'Why is that agreeable young woman,' one asks me, 'so pale and sickly' Why, she eats trash; and while she does this, she can't have health. Is it not your case Do you eat trash - novels, romances, and the like How can you then expect spiritual health And I doubt you eat (that is - read) too much. - I am, dear Sally, Yours very affectionately.","word_count":174,"source_url":null,"themes":["pneumatology","social-holiness","works-mercy"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T05:19:45.844125"}]}