Letter

From London to Charles Street, Bristol. He is counting the hours until they are reunited. By Sarah's next letter, he will expect to hear that Samuel's first tooth has appeared and of Charles junior's and Sally's continued health and progress in learning. Charles junior is a long time learning one particular solo and wants his father 'to hear him MORE DILIGENTLY'. Reference is made to poor Mrs Stonehouse.

He was unable to find Lady [Huntingdon] this morning, as she has apparently returned to Sussex so he rode on to visit Mrs Rich and spent a pleasant two hours with her and Mrs [?Anne] White etc. He dined with several of the brethren and their wives at Mr Butcher's. Thirty minutes was spent with [George] Downing at Mr Broughton's house before he returned to 'my company'.

Wednesday night, Snowsfields

Charles has just come down from the pulpit. Reference is made to the new master of Kingswood School.

Notes

• Publication Record: Quoted by Thomas Jackson, The Journal of the Rev. Charles Wesley (1849), Vol.2, p.260.
• The original Snowsfields Chapel, Southwark, was built in 1736 by one Madam Ginn who installed her friend Sayer Rudd in the pulpit. Rudd joined the Church of England in 1742, having already allowed Charles Wesley to expound in the chapel. The building was acquired by John Wesley in 1743 and he replaced it with a new chapel in the octagon style in 1764. It has since been demolished. Source: Edward H. Sugden, John Wesley's London - Scenes of Methodist and World wide Interest with their Historical Associations (1932) and John Vickers and Betty Young, A Methodist Guide to London and the South-East (1980).
• The Mrs White (1730-1807) referred to above, may be the Mrs Anne White of London who died in 1807 at the age of seventy-seven and was buried at City Road. Source: George John Stevenson, City Road Chapel, London, and its Associations, Historical, Biographical and Memorial (1872), p.494.
• Mrs Rich was the wife of John Rich, proprietor of Covent Garden Theatre and inventor of the art of pantomime. Mrs Rich was a former bar-maid and actress who was converted after her marriage. Source: Dictionary of National Biography.

Notes

• Publication Record: Quoted by Thomas Jackson, The Journal of the Rev. Charles Wesley (1849), Vol.2, p.260.
• The original Snowsfields Chapel, Southwark, was built in 1736 by one Madam Ginn who installed her friend Sayer Rudd in the pulpit. Rudd joined the Church of England in 1742, having already allowed Charles Wesley to expound in the chapel. The building was acquired by John Wesley in 1743 and he replaced it with a new chapel in the octagon style in 1764. It has since been demolished. Source: Edward H. Sugden, John Wesley's London - Scenes of Methodist and World wide Interest with their Historical Associations (1932) and John Vickers and Betty Young, A Methodist Guide to London and the South-East (1980).
• The Mrs White (1730-1807) referred to above, may be the Mrs Anne White of London who died in 1807 at the age of seventy-seven and was buried at City Road. Source: George John Stevenson, City Road Chapel, London, and its Associations, Historical, Biographical and Memorial (1872), p.494.
• Mrs Rich was the wife of John Rich, proprietor of Covent Garden Theatre and inventor of the art of pantomime. Mrs Rich was a former bar-maid and actress who was converted after her marriage. Source: Dictionary of National Biography.