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Autograph letter signed : Ireland?, to Sally Crosby, 1789 June 4.

BIB_ID
281999
Accession number
MA 516.18
Creator
Wesley, John, 1703-1791.
Display Date
1789 June 4.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 20 cm
Notes
With Irish postmark and seal; the place name is barely legible and may read "Coleraine."
Part of a collection of letters, prints, and other materials relating to John Wesley. The 44 items in the collection are described individually (MA 516.1-44).
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1904.
Summary
Asserting that a preacher may not stay beyond his scheduled time in a place "only in favour of a wife needing time of lying in." Wesley states that he is in better health than when he left Dublin.