Wesley Corpus

Your affectionate brother. To Mr. John Atlay, New Chapel, London. To Thomas Cooper BRISTOL, September 6, 1788. DEAR TOMMY, I will not send any other person into the Derby Circuit if you will be there in two or three weeks. Cooper, who had been stationed at Birmingham, and was down in the Minutes for Plymouth, had been changed to Derby. He was appointed to Wolverhampton in 1789. Otherwise I must, or the work of God might suffer in a manner not easy to be repaired. You should have told me at first what your disorder was, and possibly I might have saved you from much pain. I am, dear Tommy, Your affectionate brother. To Mr. Thos. Cooper, In Cherry Lane, Birmingham. To his Niece Sarah Wesley 14 BRISTOL, September 8, 1788. MY DEAR SALLY, You shall have just as many friends as will be for your good; and why should not my Betty Ritchie be in the number I must look to that, if I live to see London again, which will probably be in three weeks. If sea water has that effect on you, it is plain you are not to drink it. See letters of Sept. 1, 1788, and Sept. 17, 1790. All the body is full of imbibing pores. You take in water enough that way. If your appetite increases, so does your strength, although by insensible degrees. I have seen John Henderson several times. I hope he does not live in any sin. But it is a great disadvantage that he has nothing to do. I hope we shall find him something.