Wesley Corpus

To John Valton Date: BRISTOL, September 18, 1773. MY DEAR BROTHER, When Dr. Monkley attended that good man Mr. Colley Benjamin Colley, a native of Tollerton in Yorkshire. He joined the Methodists in 1761. See letters of May 2, 1767, and Oct. 13, 1784 (to Valton) in his consumptive disorder, he said one day, 'I can't imagine how it is none of my medicine have any effect.' After pausing he asked one standing by, ' Is this gentleman lately married' On her answering, ' About four months since,' he replied, ' Then he is a dead man.' Finding Sam. Levick in Dublin of a consumptive habit, having been married some months, I advised him to leave his wife there and ride with me round the kingdom. But she persuaded him to remain with her; in consequence of which in a few months more she buried him See letter of Jan. 12 to Alexander Clark. Humanly speaking, this would be the case with you if you marred during your present state of health. I think you ought at all events to take a journey of a thousand miles first. I am Your affectionate brother.