I received the Letter you did me the Honour of writing to me the 16th Inst. respecting the Public Records suppos’d to have brought from Canada, after the Conquest of that Country by the English, and depos’d by them at Philadelphia. I have never heard of such a Transaction, but will enquire: Tho’ I cannot think it likely that the English should take the Trouble of bringing away Records of such small Importance to them, as the Registers of Baptisms, especially as they kept Possession of the Country.

I ought to have acknowledg’d sooner the Receipt of another Letter you honour’d me with now some Months since, accompanied by your ingenious and learned Memoir concerning the first Discovery of America. I communicated it immediately to our Philosophical Society, where it was read, unanimously approv’d, and order’d to be printed in our second Volume, then in the Press. I hoped from time to time to have sent you the Volume itself with this Information, and delay’d Writing till it should be compleated. It has been longer in hand than I expected, but will probably be finish’d next Week, when you shall have a Copy. With great Esteem and Respect, I am, Sir, Your Honour’s most obedient and most humble Servant