{"id":"jw/letters/1788b/20-to-ann-bolton","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"B 20 To Ann Bolton","title_alt":[],"text_basis":null,"date_composed":null,"date_precision":"unknown","date_note":null,"numbering":{"bicentennial":null,"jackson_running":null,"sugden":null},"source_edition":{"editor":null,"title":null,"edition":null,"place":null,"publisher":null,"year":null,"volume":null,"pages":null,"scan_url":null,"scan_page_ids":null},"transcription":{"derived_from":null,"corrected_against_scan":false,"corrector":null,"corrected_on":null},"modernization":"none","license_text":"Public Domain Mark 1.0","license_apparatus":"CC BY 4.0","wikidata":null,"prev":null,"next":null,"part_of":"jw-letters","editorial_note":null,"source_id":"jw-letter-1788b-20-to-ann-bolton","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1788b-20-to-ann-bolton-000"],"word_count":150,"themes_auto":["free-will","justifying-grace","social-holiness"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1788b-20-to-ann-bolton-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1788b-20-to-ann-bolton-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1788b-20-to-ann-bolton","source_title":"B 20 To Ann Bolton","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Ann Bolton Date: BRECON, August 15, 1788. DEAR NANCY, Last night I received yours at Monmouth. The same complaint which you make of not receiving an answer to your letter another person had just been making. But I had answered you both. I cannot therefore but conclude that both my letters had some way or other miscarried. Since I saw you a young slender girl just beginning to seek salvation I do not remember that you ever offended in anything. But you was always exceeding dear to me. So you are still. And I would show it effectually if my power were equal to my will. I love you the more because you are a daughter of affliction. I suppose you are still in God's school. But you still remember He loveth whom He chasteneth. If you love me still, write freely to, my dear Nancy, Yours very affectionately.","word_count":150,"source_url":null,"themes":["social-holiness","justifying-grace","free-will"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T05:22:58.021631"}]}