I wrote you a long letter lately about the Soap, which I suppos’d to have become crumbley by means of Frost; and acquainting you that we had made some of the Crumbs solid again, by re-melting them with Water. I farther requested your Advice whether to re-melt it all, and in what manner. That you may better understand the Case, I send you herewith some of the crumbly Soap, and a Pice of that which we consolidated by re-melting the Crumbs. But since I wrote that Letter I find that a few of the Cakes which appear’d ready to fall to pieces, being set separately on their Edges upon a Shelf in a Closet to dry gradually, seem now to have become very firm; and I have therefore this day taken all out of the Box, and set them to dry in the same slow manner, perhaps they may all grow firm, and make the re-melting unnecessary.

I send also with this, one of the Books in which is printed my Proposal of a new Alphabet, which you desired to see. I am, ever, your affectionate Brother