Letter

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  • Reference
      GB 133 DDCW/5/6
  • Former Reference
      GB 135 DDCW/5/6
      GB 133 Folio entitled Letters of the Revd C. Wesley, page 6
  • Dates of Creation
      [13 Aug 1748]

Scope and Content

From [Holyhead, Anglesey], to [Sarah Gwynne junior]. He will probably leave [for Dublin] at ten this morning as the packet boat has arrived. His strength has been restored by three days rest, and since he left [Garth, Brecknockshire] he has slept most immoderately till 6 every morning. This indulgence I impute to A FRIEND, who constantly attends my slumbers and hovers over me as my Guardian Angel'.

Charles hopes that Sarah can take advice as well as give it, and will therefore follow his example of regular sleep and early rising. He understands that she cannot be as exact in her habits as Charles, but she should do the best that she can. Sarah should 'expect to give a strict acct of yrself if we shd meet again. Remember my lambs. To you I commit them under the great shepherd…love & cherish them; talk to them; pray for them & with them'.

She should write as Charles has done, to Charles P [Perronet] in Bristol, re when he can conveniently call on the Gwynnes.

Her prayers should follow Charles to the 'Lions den' and back again.

Note

  • Publication Record: Quoted by Dr Frank Baker in Charles Wesley - As Revealed by his Letters (1948), pp.57-58.

Note

Note

  • Publication Record: Quoted by Dr Frank Baker in Charles Wesley - As Revealed by his Letters (1948), pp.57-58.