George Whitefield letters

This collection contains thirteen letters in total: twelve written by George Whitefield to various recipients and one letter written by Bishop Martin Benson to George Whitefield. The letters represent a large portion of Whitefield's itinerate ministry (1739-1769). The first three letters are part of a correspondence between George Whitefield and Bishop Martin Benson on the subject of Whitefield’s field preaching, of which Benson disapproved. Whitefield also corresponded with notable Methodists such as Charles Wesley and Howell Harris. Whitefield also corresponded with his nephew, James Whitefield, at the Savannah Orphanage. In Whitefield’s letter to Eleazar Wheelock, he describes the “great awakening” taking place in New England during his 1764 tour of the area.