| Disgrifiad | Received the book safe by M[Aurice] Lewis for which he will remember his brother. Thinks the author has been too great a satirist upon his antagonists than the peculiar good nature of Mr Pope would admit. Therefore he believes it to be the product of Jonathan's fertile brain. Desires his brother, when at leisure, to step into some of the mathematical instrument maker's shops and eqnuire what is the price of a wheel and a theodolite. His mother wants to hear from Dicky whether he is settled or not, being afraid he is too troublesome being so long at Mrs Lloyd's Local gossip. Has a scheme for a lottery 'it consists of 40 tickts ten prizes 30 blank;1. 10,000; 2, 6000 3; 4000 4; 1500; ye prize of a ticket for ye benefit of ye Irish is 500 a smart cock and red heels it is to be drawn att M: Lewis's ye first of Aprill next where proposals may be soon att large and subscriptions taken in I dont know any country unles Holland can do ye like all forreigners are excluded as prises among the blanks there are half a dozen widows for younger brothers I wd advise you to sell your annuity and subscribe I think it ye best method yt can be for modest fellows to get wives it saves ym a great deal of time besides ye troubles of courtship" |