I am now so prodigiously Engagd as well in my publick business
as on Account of our very great National loss the Death of the
Prince of Wales that I can only acknowledge the Receipt of thy kind
Letters with the Tracts Inclosed.
I have sent per Capt. Richey in the Beulah the
Magazins for Febuary.
I am thy sincere friend
Prince of a short Illness an Inflammatory Fever Died the 20th
Universally Lamented. I shall be much obliged at thy Leisure to
give mee an account of the Numbers of People that annual come over
for Tenn years past or more. I am Vex’d to see J: Bartrams Journal
printed with so many Faults. Whiston is greatly to Blame. My Friend
would have Corrected the press, but to Save a little Trouble of
sending It, He would do it himself. Thy Experiments when Cave will
think fitt to Deliver them will appear with More Advantage and Less
Faults to the publick but there is no Excuseing his Delitoriness
for all Has been ready for some time past only wants the small
Engraving of the Instruments in thy first Letter which are but few.
There is a parcell for Jno. Bartram.