{"id":"jw/letters/1785b/37-to-thomas-tattershall","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"B 37 To Thomas Tattershall","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-1785b-37-to-thomas-tattershall","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1785b-37-to-thomas-tattershall-000"],"word_count":188,"themes_auto":["assurance","free-will","justifying-grace"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1785b-37-to-thomas-tattershall-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1785b-37-to-thomas-tattershall-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1785b-37-to-thomas-tattershall","source_title":"B 37 To Thomas Tattershall","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Thomas Tattershall Date: LONDON, November 13, 1785. DEAR TOMMY, - I heard all the complaints in Norfolk face to face, and trust that they will go on well. The affair of Derby House should be mentioned at the Conference; that is the proper time. You must immediately drop any preacher that gives any countenance to Nathaniel Ward. While I live I will bear the most public testimony I can to the reality of witchcraft. Your denial of this springs originally from the Deists; and simple Christians lick their spittle. I heartily set them at open defiance. I know of no extracts from novels; but I publish several excellent extracts from the Spectator; and I am certainly a better judge of what is fit to be published than those little critics. But let them pass over what they do not like. There never was so useful a plan devised as that of the Methodists. But what is this James Desyes says that you received 10 and a guinea towards building an house at Waterford and carried it away. - I am, dear Tommy, Your affectionate friend and brother.","word_count":188,"source_url":null,"themes":["free-will","assurance","justifying-grace"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T05:20:41.300407"}]}