I received in their due time your very kind Letters of Feb. 20 and 25. with the Books that accompanied them, for which please to accept my Thanks. I am much Pleas’d with your Institutes; and I think your Remarks on the History are very just. This is all I can say about them at present; the Gout and Stone which have afflicted me these 8 Months past, still continuing to harass me; and have so enfeebled the old Machine, that I think it not far from the final Stop of its Motions. In the mean time, I am my dear Friend, ever yours most affectionately