| Description | (In French.)
[Your son’s time is fully employed. He practices turning and joinery and has a gift for mechanics, and we intend to study mineralogy. He is inclined to be stout and should have horse riding. His progress in German exceeds my expectation. Young Hamilton, who came here three months before him, is not so advanced. There is no need to encourage him to work steadily. In nine months he has learnt more than young Watt has in a whole year. In June and July he will at Freiberg gather information useful to him. I shall be sorry to part with him. I should have loved to hav been present at your fete at Soho.] |