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Title	Letter to Joseph Benson at Mr. Gow's
Post Date	September 18, 1774
Author	Wesley, John, 1703-1791
Recipient	Benson, Joseph, 1749-1821
Date	1774-09-18
Physical Description	4 pgs total; 2 pgs text; 1 pg address; 1 pg blank
Address To	in St Mary's Wynd, Edinburgh
Country To	Scotland
Address From	Bristol
Country From	England
Collection (Provenance)	Leete Manuscript Collection
Transcriber	Wanda Smith
Plain Text Transcription	To Mr Jos[eph] Benson At Mr Gow’s In St Mary’s Wynd Edinburgh Bristol Sept. 18, 1774 Dear Joseph Your last proposal is incomparably the best. I approve of it entirely. Without consulting any at Dunbar (which would only puzzle the cause), immediately begin to put it in execution. Let the preacher go to Ormiston on Wednesday, Dunbar on the Thursday, and return to Edinburgh by Linton on Friday, every week. At present we sate them with preaching. You will surely find [1] It will be best to keep an horse; then both your health and your soul will prosper. If William Eels crawls in at last, send him directly to Aberdeen. And you should be preparing to change with John Bredin. I wish Dr Hamilton would send me the receipt for extracting the opiate from sow thistles and give me some account of its effects. I am, dear Joseph, Your ever affectionate friend and brother J Wesley P.S. I left ninety members in the society. I hope there are not fewer now. __________ 1. Hesiod, Works and Days 40, “half is more than the whole.” In the third word of the Greek phrase, Wesley misplaced the acute accent on the first vowel (alpha) when it should have been on the second (omicrom). The deletion was probably by a later hand.
Published Transcription	John Telford, ed. The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley, VI. December 11, 1772, to March 12, 1780.(London: Epworth Press, 1931), p. 114.
Catalog link	http://libcat.smu.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=196003
Unique Identifier	JWesley 09181774
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	1770-1779