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Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library Description: Marsden was a Wesleyan Methodist missionary who emigrated to Nova Scotia in 1800. He moved to Bermuda in 1808, to America in 1812, and returned to England in 1814. He preached on the Plymouth Dock circuit around 1815. JPG file (804 KB). -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library Description: On February 9, 1709, the Wesley family home at the rectory in Epworth burned. Six year old John was narrowly rescued from the fire by neighbors. The experience left a deep impress on John Wesley, who later in life referred to himself as a "brand plucked from the burning." Gift of the Rev. W.E. ... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library Description: On February 9, 1709, the Wesley family home at the rectory in Epworth burned. Six year old John was narrowly rescued from the fire by neighbors. The experience left a deep impress on John Wesley, who later in life referred to himself as a "brand plucked from the burning." Gift of the Rev. W.E. ... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library Description: This engraving tries to capture the family at a subsequent moment [to John's rescue] when the father, Samuel, fell to his knees and gave thanks to God for preserving all the children, saying, “Let the house go, I am rich enough.” The tradition of Susanna thanking God for John’s special deliveran... -
Creator: Wood, Enoch, 1759-1840 Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library Description: 1784 (recast early 19th century). In 1784, Wesley sat for Enoch Wood who crafted this bust of Staffordshire pottery. The artist claimed that Wesley had thought this likeness “much the best” that anyone had attempted. Adam Clarke also felt that this work bore a striking resemblance and was “the o... -
Creator: Wood, Enoch, 1759-1840 Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library Description: 1784 (recast early 19th century). In 1784, Wesley sat for Enoch Wood who crafted this bust of Staffordshire pottery. The artist claimed that Wesley had thought this likeness “much the best” that anyone had attempted. Adam Clarke also felt that this work bore a striking resemblance and was “the o... -
Creator: Greenwood, John and Hone, Nathaniel, 1718-1784, painter Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library Description: "Done from an original picture in the possession of Tho. Wooldrige Esqr. of East Florida." "Nathl. Hone Pinxt. John Greenwood fecit." "The original of this picture hangs in the National Portrait Gallery [London]. It was painted in 1765 by Nathaniel Hone, R.A"--Telford, John. Sayings and portrai... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library Description: Robert Newton (1780-1854) was born at Roxby in Yorkshire. He was converted as a teenager and was admitted to the Wesleyan ministry on probation at the age of nineteen. Newton was a brilliant public speaker and fund- raiser whose great popularity necessitated his release from ordinary ministeria... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library Description: Jobson was born in London, of Methodist parentage. He was converted in 1829 and entered the Wesleyan ministry in 1834 after serving an apprenticeship to an architect. Jobson was a popular preacher and writer whose religious works such as A Mother's Portrait (1854) sold well on both sides of the... -
Creator: Wesley, Charles, 1707-1788 Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library Description: Inserted at the end of the concluding pamphlet in a collection of thirteen treatises published under the title, A Preservative against Unsettled Notions in Religion. Bristol: E. Farley, 1758. This insertion, along with a few corrections in the text, are Charles' emendations preparatory to a sepa...