I received your kind Letters of the 24th and 25th past. I am glad the Flower has got to hand so soon. As this Capt. is so well disposed towards us, tho’ I did not know him before, I shall for the future endeavour to look out for him, when I have any thing to send you. And as I imagine it might be some Pleasure to you, if you knew of any thing agreable to me, that you could send me, I now acquaint you, that I have lately wished to regale on Cod’s Tongues and Sounds, and if you could now and then send me a small Keg of them, containing about two Quarts, they would be very acceptable and pleasing to your affectionate Brother.

You tell me you are desired by an Acquaintance to ask my Opinion, whether the general Circumstances mentioned in the History of Baron Trenck are founded in Fact; to which I can only answer, that of the greatest Part of those Circumstances, the Scene being laid in Germany, I must consequently be very ignorant; but of what he says, as having past in France, between the Ministers of that Country, himself and me, I can speak positively, that it is founded on Falsehood, and that the Fact can only serve to confound it, as I never saw him in that Country, nor ever knew or heard of him, any where ’till I met with the mentioned History in Print, in the German Language, in which he ventured to relate it as a Fact, that I had with those Ministers solicited him to enter into the American Service. A Translation of that Book into French has since been printed, but the Translator has omitted that pretended Fact, probably from an Apprehension that its being, in that Country, known not to be true, might hurt the Credit and Sale of the Translation.

I thank you for the Sermon on sacred Music, I have read it with Pleasure. I think it a very ingenious Composition. You will say this is natural enough, if you read what I have formerly written on the same Subject in one of my printed Letters, wherein you will find a perfect Agreement of Sentiment respecting the complex Music, of late, in my Opinion, too much in vogue, it being only pleasing to learned Ears, who can be delighted with the Difficulty of Execution, instead of simply Harmony and Melody.

The Loss of my Letter to Mrs. Greene is not very great, as I could send you one of our Press Copies, if you were desirous of seeing it.

This Family joins in best Wishes to you and yours, with Your affectionate Brother