“When, in December, 1758, I was sent for to Weston, I asked him
the evening before he died, ‘what he would have done with the
Letters to Mr. Wesley, whether he would have them published
after his death?’ He answered, ‘By no means, because he had
only transcribed about half of them fair for the press; but,
as the corrections and alterations of the latter part were
mostly in short-hand, it would be difficult to understand them,
especially as some of the short-hand was entirely his own, and
others could not make it out; therefore, he said, as it is not
a finished piece, I desire you will think no more about it.”