I have just receiv’d a kind Letter from you without Date, but it is that in which you mention your learning the new Alphabet, &c.

Your Grandson behaves very well, and is constantly employ’d in writing for me, and will be so some time longer. As to my Reproving and Advising him, which you desire, he has not hitherto appeared to need it, which is lucky, as I am not fond of giving Advice, having seldom seen it taken. An Italian Poet in his Account of a Voyage to the Moon, tells us that All things lost on Earth are treasur’d there.

On which somebody observ’d, There must then be in the Moon a great deal of Good Advice.

Ben, concerning whom you enquire, is at the University, and very diligent in his Studies. Will is at the Episcopal Academy, and learns well, the rest are all promising, your Niece particularly, and the whole Family, Thanks to God, enjoy at present very good Health. We join in Love to you and yours, I am ever, Your affectionate Brother