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So feeling I scribled away as I had
time and health without any great
expectation of furnishing you any thing
that would be particularly available
for the present purpose

Old people become gurulous & let
themselves talk and write too when they
are able without always keeping to
the point in hand as closely as they
should do but young people of good
minds and prudent fore thought will
mostly be able to bear with them when
they remember that they are soon to fill
the stage now filled by fathers and
grandfathers

I hope you will be able to get up
a good paper one that will be a
credit to Ill, and that hereafter
you my attain not merely the celebrity
of a man of science but the more
desirable form of a Benefactor a kind
of Peter Purley and Ben Franklin in
combination improved & corrected