{"id":"jw/letters/1790a/02-to-thomas-tattershall","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"A 02 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-1790a-02-to-thomas-tattershall","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1790a-02-to-thomas-tattershall-000"],"word_count":180,"themes_auto":["assurance","catholic-spirit","experience"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1790a-02-to-thomas-tattershall-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1790a-02-to-thomas-tattershall-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1790a-02-to-thomas-tattershall","source_title":"A 02 To Thomas Tattershall","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Thomas Tattershall Date: NEAR LONDON, January 6, 1790. DEAR TOMMY, Because you desire some word I write, although I have no tidings ready. I know of no preacher that is now ready to go out; and you know we can neither buy nor hire preachers. Yet I am not sorry that your small friend William Green, his colleague. See letter of Oct. 25, 1789, to him. has taken himself away; for he was really a dangerous man. His bitter enmity against the Church made him utterly unfit to be a Methodist preacher; and his elaborate Discourse against Going to Church was enough to confound any one that was not used to controversy. Yet I did not dare to put him away; but I am not at all sorry that he is gone away. I shall not be forward to take him again; but in any other way I would be glad to help him. I would not scruple giving him a few pounds if it would do him any good. I am, dear Tommy, Your affectionate friend and brother.","word_count":180,"source_url":null,"themes":["catholic-spirit","assurance","experience"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T05:25:33.279617"}]}