Fletcher, John, letters to Joseph Benson, 1770 July; 1771 Jan. 7 and 10, Mar. 22, Nov. 23, and Dec. 10; 1772 Feb. 12; 1774 Mar. 20; 1775 May 2 and July 12; 1776 May 8 and [?]; 1780 July 24; 1781 July 20; and 1783 July 22
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Series of lengthy letters in which Fletcher, always in Madeley, writes to Benson at a variety of his stations and positions over the years, including London, Bristol, Leeds, Leeds, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and, in the earliest letters, Brecknockshire, South Wales. This was near the site of Lady Huntingdon's college, where Fletcher served as the first President and Benson as the second headmaster, until both split with Huntingdon over the Calvinist controversy in the Methodist Connexion.
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