To Jonathan Williams, Jr. (unpublished)
Philada. Jany. 27. 1786
Your Bill for £47 10s. Od. has been presented and is accepted.
In my last of Jan. 19. I promis’d to send you some philosophical
Papers, which I now enclose. The three Pieces I wrote at Sea, will
all be printed in our Transactions here; that on Chimneys is
already done, and perhaps I may send you the Sheets with this. The
others will be done soon; and printed Copies will be better for
you than written ones by Ben.
I wonder with you that the Books are not arriv’d. Pray write and
enquire about them.
When I put Dr. Jeffries’s Memoir into the hands of Mr. Gerry, I
fancy’d he was going to Boston, or as a Member of Congress could
send it free of Postage. But I see by the Newspapers that he stays
at New York to be married, and perhaps that important Transaction
has put the Packet out of his Mind. I am ever, Your affectionate
Uncle
Verte s.v.p.
I suppose you have learnt that the Agreement with your Uncle in
London is at last sign’d and the Affair finally settled, on which
I congratulate you.
My Baggage is at length arrived, and we are now employ’d in
unpacking &c.
Enclos’d I send you 4 Papers, viz
1. Meteorological Imaginations.
2. Loose Thoughts on a universal Fluid
3 Letter to Abbé Soulaire
4 Description of a new Instrument useful in a Library.
| You may show these to Mr. Bowdoin, and if he should think any of |
them worth communicating to the Society, they are at his
Disposition. None of them have been communicated to the
Society here.
| The Papers I wrote at Sea re printing here, and I shall soon be |
able to send you Copies.
| I write this in red, because my black Pen is too bad, and I cannot |
see my Penknife