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Dear Father,
I hope you have received the pamphlets per mail coach; they were sent to Wyan's office, with directions to forward them by that conveyance and to deliver them immediately upon its arrval in London.
You will see by the inclosed letter from Mr. Pearson Mr. Swainson's determination respecting his medals; the different inscriptions for the reverse, &c., I have preserved here, in case you may wish the dies to be put in hand before your return.
I have enquired of Meadows concerning the rolls, and am sorry to say that he has not yet recieved them from the foundery, tho' Mr. Kellet assures me he has frequently applied to Mr. Dearman. In consequence of you request, he has sent to him again this morning and desired a decisive answer when he may expect they will be ready.
Your observations upon Ibbetson's coin have been delivered to Ponton and Busch, and they will in consequence make the necessary [altera]tions.
At the same time that you procure the micrometer I hope you will not forget to [buy] a Six's thermometer; I wish'd much for one during the late severe frost, for the cold has been very intense-indeed, Mr. Southern's thermometer at the drawing room door stood, at half past seven o'clock in the morning, so low as +7½ , which is half a degree lower than you state it to have been in the year 1740, when you saw it @ +8 . I wish also you would buy a pamplet lately published by Mr. Six upon the use and construction of his thermometers; in this work he probably points out a remedy for those accidents to which his instrument is so liable. In bringing it down from London, it might perhaps be advisable to suspend to some part of your carriage by a spiral spring; this would probable prevent the bad effects of the sudden jolts.
The fate of the fair Fidelia will be regretted by every one, and especially by the circle [of] her acquaintance; the loss of such an [asse]mblage of the endowments of nature . . . [The copy is incomplete.]
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