I am however too much obliged to Yale College, the
first learned Society that took Notice of me and adorned me with its
Honours, to refuse a Request that comes from it thro' so esteemed a
Friend. But I do not think any one of the Portraits you mention, as
in my Possession, worthy of the Place and Company you propose to
place it in. You have an excellent Artist lately arrived. If he
will undertake to make one for you, I shall cheerfully pay the
Expence; but he must not delay setting about it, or I may slip thro'
his fingers, for I am now in my eighty-fifth year, and very infirm.
I send with this a very learned Work, as it seems to me, on the
antient Samaritan Coins, lately printed in Spain, and at least
curious for the Beauty of the Impression. Please to accept it for
your College Library. I have subscribed for the Encyclopaedia now
printing here, with the Intention of presenting it to the College. I
shall probably depart before the Work is finished, but shall leave
Directions for its Continuance to the End. With this you will
receive some of the first numbers.
You desire to know something of my Religion.
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