Best known for his caustic wit – he once famously dubbed the wives of George Whitefield and John Wesley a ‘brace of ferrets’ – John Berridge has for too long been overlooked by scholars of early Methodism and Evangelicalism. Vicar of Everton in Bedfordshire for almost forty years until 1793, the Calvinist Berridge played a prominent role in the emergence of the Evangelical party in the Church of England in the second half of the eighteenth century. Nigel Pibworth, already the author of a popular life of Berridge (The Gospel pedlar: the story of John Berridge and the eighteenth-century revival (1987)), has spent the intervening years searching for Berridge's extant correspondence. The result is this edition of 163 letters penned by Berridge; the reverse side of the correspondence, and letters written to Berridge, are not included. Included amongst the recipients of Berridge's letters are John Wesley, the countess of Huntingdon, John Newton, Rowland Hill, Henry Venn and John Thornton, as well as other lesser-known local and familial figures. The letters are well presented, although there appears to have been some light editing and modernising of the language in places in order to help readability. A little more detail on the editorial principles adopted might have been provided. A substantial introduction sets Berridge within his eighteenth-century and Evangelical contexts. The recent publication of Jonathan Rodell's study of the rise of Methodism in Bedfordshire has done much to aid our knowledge of the growth of Methodism at a local level in the county. This welcome edition of Berridge's letters makes available an important primary source on that growth. One hopes that they will stimulate further scholarly reflection on Berridge's role in the early Evangelical movement, perhaps even his first scholarly biography.