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Dear Papa

Sunday 15th Febry. 1761.

I send you inclosed my Translation as I promised you and
shall continue it every Week and send it you this day as being the
last of the Week, for I think I need have at least a whole Week to
do it in, as I am got to a very hard part, and deeply immersed in Philosophy;
for a proof which You need only read the Original at Your leisure
before You read my Translation, and if you get to a hard passage,
you may then look in for information, or to see whether I have rendered
it right. You see I have wrote the greatest part very small, upon
consideration that if I was to write as I commonly do, it would be
so large, that the Expence would be much greater, than I have made
it by this means. tho' I say it is difficult, and all that, do not imagine
that I desire to have any of it take off, or that I shall be unwilling
to keep to my contract, for if it was 3 times as much I would
do it, as I promised I would, and you would like it: I think flatter myself
You will think I have hit off some of the difficult parts
not unhappily, and be convinced that what I say is not out of mere
Idleness, and dislike of the Business I am about. I expect to begin
Logic to morrow together with 4 more of us, and with that, together
with my Translation, I think I shall have employment enough: One
thing I forgot to desire is, that You would not make any Alterations
in my Translation except there be any manifest mistakes in the use
of the particles &c,&c. for there may be various Sections, and what
is in my book, (which I should have told you, I found was one of the
loose volumes of Tully which you sent me) which may be different in
Yours. I can add no more at present, as I am just going to drink in Company
with an old Schoolfellow, who is come to see one of my intimate

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Date_1	1761-02-15	Marginal Summary Numbering
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