Although many of the letters of John Wesley are of value as
literature--especially as crisp statements of his views or desires
with little attempt at embellishment--their major importance is as
a revelation of him as a man and of the people and events of his
day, especially those linked with the Methodist movement. They
furnish us, in fact, with a portrait through seventy years that is
both more revealing in detail and fuller in coverage than any other
source.
The correspondence presented in this first of seven planned
volumes of Wesley's Letters offers many intimate glimpses of the
man during his early years which are available nowhere else: of his
strong family ties, of his leaning upon his mother for theological
and spiritual as well as moral guidance, of his bedazzlement by
Mary Pendarves (later Mrs. Delany), of the noble experiment of the
Holy Club at Oxford, of the struggle between spiritual ideals and
worldly reality during his brief ministry in Georgia, and of the
birth of the Methodist societies in London and Bristol.
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