Welcome, my dear Friend, welcome once more to America: and at the same time permit me to congratulate your Excellency on your appointment to the Presidency of Pensylvania. The greatest honour in their power to grant; and the least your merit. May you and the people of that State be mutually happy in the appointment.

About three months ago I had the honour of writing to you; and enclosing several Memoirs, taken from a volume of Memoirs of the American Academy then printing here under the direction of a Committee of the Academy.

As it was uncertain where you then were, I sent the Letter with the Memoirs under a cover directed to the Revd. Dr. Price; and requested him to forward them to your Excellency.

In the letter I apologized for the liberty, which in one of them, I had taken, of making a few observations on some queries of yours relative to light.

It is possible the Docor may have sent you the Packet containing the letter and memoirs: but however that may be, I shall have the honour of transmitting to you the whole volume as soon as it is finished: which will probably be within a few weeks. In the meantime I have the honour to be, with the most Sincere affection and esteem, my dear Sir Your Encellency’s most obedient and most humble Servant