After these general Observations, permit me to make one that I
imagine may regard your Interest. It is that _your Spelling Book_ is
miserably printed here, so as in many Places to be scarcely legible,
and on wretched Paper. If this is not attended to, and the new one
lately advertis'd as coming out should be preferable in these
Respects, it may hurt the future Sale of yours.
I congratulate you on your Marriage, of which the Newspapers
inform me. My best wishes attend you, being with sincere esteem,
Sir, &c.
"AS TO JESUS OF NAZARETH"
_To Ezra Stiles_
REVEREND AND DEAR SIR, Philad'a, March 9. 1790.
I received your kind Letter of Jan'y 28, and am glad you have
at length received the portrait of Gov'r Yale from his Family, and
deposited it in the College Library. He was a great and good Man,
and had the Merit of doing infinite Service to your Country by his
Munificence to that Institution. The Honour you propose doing me by
placing mine in the same Room with his, is much too great for my
Deserts; but you always had a Partiality for me, and to that it must
be ascribed.
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