Your esteamed favour covering your observations I duly received and had them (excepting a few lines) published; some very good Friends to our common Country supposed they might without injury to the performance be omited—and as you was so obliging as to submit it in some to my disposition I ventured to do it. You can have no conception Sir of the happy effects that has attended this publication—it has been read and applauded by allmost every body—it has been much used in Town meetings to inculcate moderation and a due respect to the opinion of others and is said by all (except about four or five persons) to contain those sentiments which only can procure the establishment of a Government in Peace—some of your old Friends in Boston say that by this Speach they can se[e] you in no other light than as the same Man you was forty years ago—by the returns that are made of the elections in this State the prospect is very encourging wishing that all our endeavours for the peace and prosperity of our Country may be succ[essful]. I remain with every sentiment of esteem and respect—Sir Your most Humble Servant