This letter will be deliver’d to you by Mr. Slaney, a young Gentleman of fortune who has been for some time on his travels and is ambitious of the honour of being introduced to you. I am not personally acquainted with him; but the account given me of him by a friend of his and mine assures me that he is a Gentleman of the best principles and character. Any notice which you may be pleased to take of him will, I believe, make him very happy. Before this will be deliver’d to you the new Edition of my Treatise on Annuities, population, public credit &c will probably have reached you. Encouraged by the favourable reception which this work has met with I have in this edition enlarged it to two volumes, and taken great pains to make it as complete as possible. I reflect with pleasure that the part of it which is addressed to you will be the means of preserving Some remembrance of our acquaintance and friendship. You will easily recollect the fact mentioned in the note P. 284, Vol. 1st. I have thought there could be no impropriety in introducing it into this Edition. Wishing you all possible happiness, I am most affectionately Yours