I received your Letter of Nov. 20. & another written on Occasion of the New Year, together with the Drawings, which please me, and I have desired your Master to advance a Guinea in Books for you, as a Present from me in Return for those Drawings: But I expect you will improve; and that you will send me some every half Year, that I may see how you improve.

I inclose a Letter for you from your Mother which I have just received; and another from your Friend Cockran.

I am pleased that you keep an Account of your Expences. You will hereafter find it a great advantage, if you acquire the Habit of doing so, and continue the Practice thro' Life.

I wish you would learn to write a fair round Hand. It is sur-prising what a Progress your Brother has made in such Writing, considering his Age. I have sent to London for some Copy Books of that Hand for you, which you will try to imitate. Fair legible Writing is of a great Importance, and I shall be much pleas'd to see you improve in it.

Till you receive the Books above mentioned, you may request your Writing Master to give you a Copy of a Bill of Exchange for Twelve Livres Tournois to be drawn by you upon me in Favour of Mr. Marignac, the Value of which I have desired him to pay you for the Bill when it is written so well as to have his Approbation, & I shall allow the article in his Account.

Let me know whether you learn Arithmetick in your School.

Present my Respects to Madam Cramer & your other Friends, & to Mrs. Montgomery, whose Letter for Philadelphia I have forwarded.

I am ever, my dear Child, Your affectionate Grand father