The first volume of our Academy Memoirs being finished, I beg your acceptance of a Copy . Col: Hurd, who does me the favour of taking charge of it, will deliver it to your Excellency.

I have only time at present to thank your for your late obliging Letter, and for Dr. Jeffries’s Account of his aerial voyage from England to France. The Account was read at the last Meeting of our Academy; and delivered to the recording Secretary, to be lodged with the other communications; not knowing at the time, that it was to be returned. I shall at the next meeting obtain it, and agreeably to your request, return it to you.

Mrs. Bowdoin thanks you for your kind wishes; and joins with me in the most affectionate expression of regard: hoping we Shall once more See our old friend in Boston: than which nothing could give a greater pleasure to dear Sir, Your Excellency’s most obedient humble Servant