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Title	Letter to Joseph Benson
Post Date	October 16, 1774
Author	Wesley, John, 1703-1791
Recipient	Benson, Joseph, 1749-1821
Date	1774-10-16
Physical Description	4 pgs total; 2 pgs text; 1 pg address; 1 pg blank
Dimensions	19 x 31 cm
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 Edinburgh London Oct. 16, 1774 Dear Joseph I have wrote to Dr Hamilton that Brother Eels must go to Aberdeen, and Edinburgh and Dunbar must be supplied by one preacher. They should have thought of preaching in the churchyard before. While I live, itinerant preachers shall be itinerants; I mean, if they choose to remain in connexion with us. The society in Greenock are entirely at their own choice. BThey may either have a preacher between them and Glasgow or none at all. But more than one between them they cannot have. I have two much too much regard both for the bodies and souls of our preachers to let them be confined to one place any more. I hope J.ohn B.redin will punctually observe your direction, spending either three days or a week at each place alternately. I have weighed the matter and will serve the Scots as we do the English or leave them. I wish you would write a letter to John Campbell and another to R.ob Mck er Mackie and argue the case with them. If John B.redin does not go to Greenock, let him (or his successor) spend half his time at Dunbar. Then a preacher may be constantly at Edinburgh. But give me only six days in a fortnight there, and I will visit all the society from house to house. O be humble and zealous! I am, dear Joseph Your affectionate friend and brother J Wesley
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. 117.
Catalog link	http://libcat.smu.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=195975
Unique Identifier	JWesley 10161774
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