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My dear Son,—My reason for not sending to you sooner was that I had been an a journey to Manchester, and did not see your letter till last night. I have considered your request, and found it reasonable. You are mistaken if you think that I wanted to confine you to the small matter paid by Mr Willis, or to-any particular sum. You are now arrived at an age when it becomes necessary for you to be well acquainted with the value of money. Your profession likewise requires it both prudence and sobriety in youth, naturally leads to regularity of conduct in more advanced years. Virtue ensures respect, and I well know that all manner of precepts are useless where the inclinations are vicious. I have left the affair mentioned in your letter, entirely to your own discretion; and I have sent the inclosed unlimited order. I doubt not prudence will direct you how to proceed.—I am, dear child, your affectionate father.

Dear Jackey,—Little master Billy Thomson is going to London to-morrow in the stage, and I have sent this by him to you. We are all well at school and I have got as far as Ovid; I have likewise got through the rules of practice, of which I shall give you a better account when I come to town at the holidays. Dear brother, give my duty to my father and mother, and tell them I long to see them; I pray for them and you every night. I spend an hour, every day in reading Dr Goldsmith's Roman History. Pray, Jackey, send me some books, for I am very fond of reading, and