You will be kind enough, also, out of the same, to pay Mr. Aitken for a Bible, book of Arithmetic, and Entick's Spelling Dictionary, which I have desired him to furnish Jo with. The remainder you will credit me with, if there be any.

I am, dear sir, more than ever yours,

Jeremy Belknap.

The gentleman whom I mentioned to you in one of my letters, as a distant relation to us, and whom I would wish him to be introduced to, is a Mr. Ball, by trade a silversmith, and not a physician, as I was first informed. I enclose to you the letter I have written to him, which I leave to your discretion whether to deliver or not: if you think best, let Jo deliver it.

To the Hon. Ebenezer Hazard, Esq., Postmaster-General in Philadelphia.

Sir, — Please to pay Mr. Moses Killsa, master of the sloop Caroline, eight Spanish milled dollars, in full for the passage and subsistence of my son, Joseph Belknap, on board said sloop, from Boston to Philadelphia, and charge the same to the accompt of Your friend and humble servant,

Jeremy Belknap. Boston, November 8, 1783.

Received the contents in full, November 26, 1783.

Moses Killsa,

BELKNAP TO HAZARD.

Boston,'noy. 11,1788.

My Bear Sir, — Before this reaches you, I hope you will have seen my son Josey, who sailed from this place yesterday on board the sloop "Caroline/' Moses Killsa master, for Philadelphia. She is a fine new large vessel, laden with rum and flax-seed; and T had the very great pleasure of finding that there was a young gentleman named Myrick, a passenger on board, who was so very kind as to let Josey have part of his cabbin and mattress on the voyage. Indeed, every circumstance since my coming into this town has been as favourable as I could have wished; and, if I hear of his safe arrival at Philadelphia, my desires will be crowned. I must beg you, my dear friend, to let me know every circumstance that you can learn relative to his voyage, his treatment on board, &c, and with the watchful eye of a father to observe his conduct while with Mr. A., and let me know impartially every circumstance that you think I ought or would wish to know concerning him and his connexion there.

I sent by him £7 lis. 4rf. of our L.M. to you in gold and silver, and wrote largely both to you and Mr. Aitken.

I now have time only to add that I am, with the most sincere affection and respect,

Your obliged friend and servant,

J. Belkkap.

HAZARD TO BELKNAP.

Philadelphia, Nov. 12,1783.

Dear Sir, — By last post I received yours of 23d October from Dover, and 27th from Portsmouth, with more of your MS. There is something mysterious in the former. You say, "in my # last week's letter I gave you a copy of Mr. Longman's letter." I have not received it, and therefore am quite in the dark about Mr. Longman's proposals. For a man of 29 the Freemason is one of the most outrageous lovyers I ever met with. From the stile of his letters, it is clear to me that if a windmill stood in his way when he was going to Portsmouth he certainly would ride over it. When I get leisure, I will review your third chapter, and expunge the exceptionable passage, or qualify it so as to make it innocent. Mr. Aitken will hope to see Josey as soon as possible, but begs you will not make yourself uneasy about accidents which human wisdom cannot prevent or even foresee. You see by my writing that I am in an hurry, and have only time to add to Mrs. H.'s salutations to yourself and Mrs. B. those of your friend, Eben. Hazard.

HAZARD TO JOSEPH RUSSELL, AT BOSTON.

Philadelphia, November 12,1783.

SrK, — I have already acknowledged the receipt of your favour of 16th ult., but unfortunately the mail fell into other hands than those for which it was intended. The design of this is merely to inform you that the twenty pounds lawful money, on account of Mr. Belknap, came safe to hand, and that the 100 copies of his History, when ready, shall be delivered to your order, by, Sir, your most obedient servant,

Eren. Hazard.

BELKNAP TO HAZARD.

Dover, Nov. 22, 1783.

My Dear Sir, — At my return home from Boston, I found a very short letter from you. The week before last I had nothing; and last week a packet of papers arrived, in some of which I find the mail had been robbed at Princeton, by which means I suppose I am deprived of what would have otherwise come to my hands per the post before last. I hope the rogue will be detected.

You have not mentioned the receipt of the note and bill which Mr. Russell sent you, amounting to £20 L.M. I hope they have not miscarried.

By the week after next, I shall expect to hear of my son's arrival at Philadelphia. Be so kind as to deliver him the inclosed.

I find people are impatient for the publication of my History. I tell them that I suppose it is now in hand, and that it will go on rapidly. Mr. A. having advertized Blair's Lectures, I imagine mine will go into the press next.

I see in some of your papers a piece advertised against the Cincinnati, supposing it dangerous to republicanism. Is it so or not?

I forget whether I mentioned to you that our Egg is perfected at length, and is to be hatched next June. The amendments contained in the paper I sent you in the summer are adopted.

Mrs. B. joins in respectful salutations to Mrs. Hazard with your affectionate friend and most humble servant,

Jere. Belknap.

BELKNAP TO HAZARD. •

Dover, Nov. 30, evening, 1783.

My Dear Sir,—I am much surprized to find by yours of the 12th inst. that my letter containing a copy of Mr. Longman's has miscarried. It is, I think, the first instance of the kind since our correspondence begun; and I cannot easily account for it. I have been trying to recollect the circumstances of sending it from here to Portsmouth; and, if I remember right, it went by a very trusty hand, and, being myself at Portsmouth the next week, I enquired of Mr. Libbey whether he had received it, and was answered in the affirmative. I think, therefore, it may have been mislaid in his office: when I see him, I will make enquiry. In the mean time, I will tell you what is meant by "Longman's proposal." He declined printing an edition, because it was his opinion, and the opinion of our late Governour W. (whom he consulted on the occasion, and to whom I wrote at the same time), that " the history of one single province would not attract the notice of people in England;" but advised me to print it here, and offered, if I would send some of the copies to him, to sell them for my benefit. In consequence of this proposal, I wished to know of you and Mr. A. whether it would be adviseable to send him any, and what additional number would be necessary to be printed, and what farther expence would arise. In this affair, I refer myself entirely to his and your advice. Mr. Eliot's letter, of which 1 sent you an extract from Boston by my son, is of the same discouraging complexion, so that I have no expectation of a transmarine edition; and yet, as I would not be wanting in case he should be able to prevail on any other person there to undertake it, I still desire that the sheets may be sent to him as they come from the press, at least till I hear farther from him. This, like some prescriptions of the iEsculapian tribe, "will do no hurt, if it does no good," and will be paying him an acceptable compliment. I am sorry on another account that the letter miscarried; for I think it enclosed one to Mr. Aitken, the want of which may induce him to think me inattentive to a request which he made some time ago, and which I had not till then been enabled to answer. I informed him therein that the price of pasteboards at Boston was five dollars per hundred weight, and recommended Mr. Joseph Russell to him as a correspondent for the purpose of supplying himself with those and other materials for carrying on his business. He was bred a printer, and is therefore a suitable person, and, having engaged 100 copies of my work, it will suit him as well to send such things to Mr. A. as to remit cash or bills. I have since seen him, and he is willing to comply with Mr. A.'s orders on this head.