I was very fortunate to receive both thy
Curious Experiments on Electricity. I have Imparted them to the
Royal Society to whome they are very acceptable and they are now in
the hands of our Ingenious Friend Mr. Watson Who has promissed as
soone as his accounts are printed to send them to Thee with a
Letter and hopes for thy further Favours.
My Letters and Books for the Lib: Com: by
Mesnard Last fall was luckkyly saved and are in the hands of E:
Bland to Come by this ship, which I Wish Safe to hand, and am thy
Sincere friend
Great Numbers of Ingenious Men are very Earnestly Engaged in
Electrical Experiment in applying them to various purposes. I have
lately seen a Letter from a Doctor of Physick att Turin, who gives
3 Instances of the Electrical power on Human Bodies By filling the
Electrical Phyal with a purgative Portion [sic] and
Transferring it into a Patient and it had all the Effects as if
taken into the Stomach. The like account has been communicated from
another Hand. I am much Obliged to thee for thine of Novr: 28: 1747
with the pamphlets Inclosed of which in my Next. Doctor Mitchell
has been out of Order himself this Winter for His Wife was so very
Ill he had near Lost Her. He desires his Kind Respects and Intends
to Write by this Ship. I am much Concern’d for the State of the
Colonies Northward of you and for our friend Colden. As Mesnard was
taken I conclude thine to Doctor Mitchell and Fothergill never came
to hand [line missing]. Aprill 25 Wee have a Strong Report
of a Peace. I wish it may prove True. Our Stocks are advanced 3 per
Cent on it.