Note 147 — FIRST VISIT TO AMERICA. (continued 2)
Reading edition
The following letter from Clayton to Wesley, has not before been published:—"Salford, May 7, 1738. We feared much that you were the author of the 'Oxford Methodists,' prefixed to Mr. Whitefield's Sermons; but Mr. Kinchin has relieved us. It is the opinion of Dr. Deacon, Dr. Byrom, and his brother Josiah, as well as myself, that you had better forbear publishing, at least for a time, till your difficulties are blown over. Dr. Byrom has the same fears about the poems, as the 'Methodists,' and doubts you are too hasty and sanguine about them."