{"id":"jw/letters/1786b/24-to-thomas-wride","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"B 24 To Thomas Wride","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-1786b-24-to-thomas-wride","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1786b-24-to-thomas-wride-000"],"word_count":145,"themes_auto":["assurance","experience","free-will"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1786b-24-to-thomas-wride-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1786b-24-to-thomas-wride-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1786b-24-to-thomas-wride","source_title":"B 24 To Thomas Wride","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Thomas Wride Date: LONDON, October 29, 1786. DEAR TOMMY, - I am entirely of your mind. If any man (to waive everything else) can make me sleep without touching me, he may call the matter what he pleases; I know it is not magnetism, but magic. Mr. Mears did not tell me (that I know) anything about letters one, two, three. Women told me at Chatham. 'We called on Mrs. Wride and offered her any service in our power; but she was so sullen and surly, we had not the heart to go again.' But is it true, Tommy, that you have an estate left you I fear it is not so large as the Duke of Bedford's! I should be glad to bring you all to a good agreement. If I knew how. - I am, dear Tommy, Your affectionate friend and brother.","word_count":145,"source_url":null,"themes":["assurance","experience","free-will"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T05:21:27.833439"}]}