The draft on the other leaf is as you well remember a matter of agreement between us. The printed part of the same page tells its own tale, & if it fall in your way to procure me a few names, I need not say that it will be doing me both a kindness & a service.

My brother has been many years employed upon this work, at my suggestion, & on the <a> plan which I advised. He will have some essential aid from me in carrying it thro the press, & the book will be creditable to him, & useful as comprizing what is nowhere else to be found. If he can obtain two hundred subscribers, Longman has undertaken to print 750 copies. And if with the help which I can give it the whole edition should be sold it would be of very material consequence to him.

You will be pleased to hear that two Bishops have expressed to me their approbation of my book

in very high terms: the Bp of London by letter the Bp of Durham

by message.

My heavy packages from London arrived on Tuesday last, & I have got thro the pleasant task of arranging the books which they contained, which I have accomplished without having any new shelves, [MS missing] & by making some of the xxxxx shelves carry a double row. By pursuing the same system I shall have room for all the additions that the next four or five years will make to my stores, if I should live so long. No miser ever had more delight in adding to his wealth than I have in heaping up treasure of this kind My kindest remembrances to M^rs Lightfoot – to Fanny Jane, – Kate & Bridget – the draft will carry them to Nico.

All here desire with like kindness to be remembered to you. I shall visit you again at a better season, & you must look on to giving me another Midsummer holydays, & seeing what has been left unseen among these mountains – [MS missing]