Enclosed, by request, is a letter from the Revd. Abiel Holmes of Midway in Georgia, a young Gentleman of peculiar modesty and great merit, whom I beg leave to introduce to your corresponding acquaintance. The request he makes is such as your Excellency will be pleased to comply with, if not too troublesome, as Mr. Holmes is in a situation where he is capable of being extensively useful.

I have at length printed my Dissertations on the Language, a copy of which I shall desire my bookseller in Phild. to deliver to your Excellency, as soon as they arrive.

With ardent wishes for the life and health of so valuable a character, I am your Excellency’s most oblig’d and most obedient Servant