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Title	Letter to Samuel Lloyd
Post Date	July 8, 1751
Author	Wesley, John, 1703-1791
Recipient	Lloyd, Samuel
Date	1751-07-08
Physical Description	4 pgs total; 2 pgs text; 1 pg address; 1 pg blank
Dimensions	19 x 32 cm
Address To	Devonshire Square, London
Country To	England
Address From	Bristol
Country From	England
Transcriber	Wanda Smith
Plain Text Transcription	To Samuel L[l]oyd, Esq. In Devonshire Square London Bristol, July 8, 1751 Dear sir You have entirely satisfied me with regard to those senseless tales which I supposed had been told to you as well as to others. But I cannot yet satisfy Mrs Jones. I am just now come from her. She is still extremely displeased, not at you, but me; says, “I have acted a very unchristian part; that her children are very good; and she cannot believe the good of Miss Loyd was the motive on which I acted.” So our friendship, in all human probability, is at an end. But that I cannot help. If the child perishes now, I am pure from her blood, which otherwise I should not have been. Miss Loyd may board for twelve pounds a year at Mrs Robertson’s, a serious and a prudent woman, and for forty shillings a year more may be by day at one of the best schools in Bristol. This is not only far safer than boarding at one of those schools (which would soon root out the very notion of heart religion) but likewise considerably less expensive: entrance money and other perquisites being saved. We must fight before we can conquer and run before we can win the race. I trust you will so run that you may obtain. I fear smooth temptations far more than rough ones. But there is One who [is] able to deliver us out of all! I am, dear sir, Your very affectionate servant John Wesley
Published Transcription	Frank Baker, ed. The Works of John Wesley, Volume 26, Letters II. 1740-1755. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982), PP. 469-70.
Notes	Page 4 written horizontal across chain-lines. Wesley folded, address on p. 3, p. 2 blank; watermark in center of paper; evidence of seal; postal stamp and postage mark present.
Catalog link	http://libcat.smu.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=200078
Unique Identifier	JWesley 07081751
Digital Resource Type	Image
Digitization Date	Digitized: 2003
Digitization Process	Digitization process: Derivatives resized at 4037 pixels in height or width.
Digital Publisher	Bridwell Library, Special Collections; Perkins School of Theology; Southern Methodist University
Rights	Permission to publish materials must be obtained from the Head of Special Collections of the Bridwell Library.
Decade	1750-1759