Spiritual Experience and Early Evangelical Correspondence: The Letters of John Wesley and Ann Bolton, 1768–91

Abstract

In this essay, Bruce Hindmarsh looks at evangelical participation in letter writing through the case study of John Wesley’s twenty-three years of correspondence with Ann Bolton, a lay leader of the local Methodist society. This well-documented example of epistolary spiritual direction exhibits the dynamic whereby the condition of spiritual simplicity was fostered through the familiar letter.

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