Your kind Letter, of the 6th of May, after some Delay by the Way, is come safe to Hand, with the Memoires and elegant Prints of your projected Hospital, which I shall dispose of as you direct. It may in time to come be useful here. I receiv’d also the Volume of Academy Memoires, and thank you for your Care in finding them.

I am now in Possession of the Repose I have so long wish’d for, having finish’d my third Year of the Presidentship, the Term Limited by our Constitution; and resolving to engage no more in public Business: My Enjoyment of that Repose can however be but short, as I am now near 83.

We have no philosophical News here at present, except that a large Boat row’d by the force of Steam, is now exercis’d upon our Rivers, stems the Current, and seems to promise being useful when the Machinery can be more simplyfied, and the Expence reduced. I am ever, my dear Friend, Yours most affectionately