I wrote to you some time ago, since which nothing of importance has occurred in our business. Our trustees are not likely to do much during the meeting of the assembly. The more I know of their affairs & of my own dispositions & qualifications — the more I am determined against engaging in their business for life — I of late made an effort to procure some law books & Motherby but was disappointed — I will again make another attempt at Philadelphia when I have collected a little more money — With my father I send an extract of Lavater's Phisognomy & hope you willaccept of it & let my father & the rest of our family read it — It is a book which has afforded me much amusement & I hope some real improvement — It appears to me, because I am not well enough acquainted with the science, that his observations are often vague & uncertain — But whatever uncertainty there may be in it — I am fully convinced that it is well worth the attention of a young man who in life may have all characters to deal with & ought early to begin to distinguish them —— I have sometimes thought that Motherby's Dictionary might not at this time be so agreeable to you or useful — I would take pleasure in procuring any others if you would only take the trouble of mentioning them — If you send me no advices of this kind I will order illegible book which I first intended — I am more illegible sensible of the advantages of which my reading on such subjects with you is likely to bring me & tho' I did not study them in that particular manner which I might, yet some general ideas remain strongly impressed on my mind which gives me a pleasure in, & a taste for a further improvement in them. Give my kindest respects to Aunt Sally & believe me your most sincere friend.

I have not been able to write as I would wish. I have been all the time with Mr Ker & my father who are comparing their religious creeds —Mr Ker & Mrs Ker present their compliments to you & Aunt — & assure you that we often think of you.