Wesley Corpus

DEAR MR. FOX, -- Mrs. Badger earnestly desires you would procure her a trumpet to help her deafness. Mrs. Ford would not have any of the tea Mrs. Cleminger brought, because it is very bad. Charles Kinchin, Charles Delamotte, Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Hall, Mrs. Fox, and my brother desire me to speak their judgment (as well as mine) concerning your removal to London. The reason for it, you say, is this: ‘You can't maintain your family at Oxford.’ To this we answer: ‘You have not tried what you can do, when you are clear in the world (which Mr. F--- promises) and should you live in your house rent-free (for that we will take care).’ If you desire only food and raiment for yourself and family, you have all reason at least to make the experiment for a while whether Providence will not give you these at Oxford when you have these helps which you had not before. The reason against her going hence is as evident as it is weighty. We have no one here like-minded. She is the very life (under God) of all her companions here; nor could the enemy devise so likely a means of destroying the work which is just beginning among them as the taking her away from their head. Which, then, is dearest to you, the interest of Christ or your own O consider this question deeply, and the good God direct your heart! Pray for Your affectionate brother. To James Hutton [20] Oxon, November 24, 1738. DEAR JEMMY, -- First let us get trifles out of the way. My brother left behind him almost all the things I wanted, which I desire may be sent without fail by the very next carrier, viz.-- A gown, cassock, and sash. The papers which my brother put into the little box which has the key in it. My eight cups, teapot, sugar-basin, and slop-basin. Have you paid Mrs. Turner for the tea and sugar bought when Brother Richter was with us The three New Testaments, 2d. Hymn-book, Italian Grammar, Dictionary (from your father's), German Dictionary, and the little . . . German book, and Newcomb's Psalms. Many here would buy hymn-books and the sermon on Faith; send them, therefore, with the rest.