Letter from Sarah Wesley to Samuel Wesley, Margate
A letter from Sarah Wesley to her brother, Samuel, discussing lingering anger between him and their late father over a relationship Samuel had been asked to break off, explaining her views on marriage and asking him to consider why he is so resistant to the idea of marrying the woman he is having a relationship with, asking whether he would like to read with her some evening, and reminiscing about their uncle. Sarah includes a quotation from Horace's Epistles Book 1, poem 18, "percontatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est, / nec retinent patulae commissa fideliter aures" which translates to "avoid the inquirers, for [they] are also talkative (betray secrets), nor [are] wide open ears reliably trusted."
Wesley, Sarah 1760-1828
Wesley, Samuel, 1766-1837
English
Man-woman relationships
Marriage
Interpersonal relations
Intergenerational relations
Families
Women
Reading
Social status
Epistolary poetry, Latin
Wesley, John, 1703-1791
Horace
Eighteenth century
Text
correspondence
Charles Wesley family papers, 1740-1864
Box 1, Folder 68
MSS 159
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