I have recd. your Letter of the 21 Octr., with your Proposals for to publish by Subscription “the History of the origin and first Ten Years of the British and foreign Bible Society—[”]1 agreable to your Request, they shall be laid before ^communicated to^ our Society at their next ensuing annual meeting, when it will be[?]in May next— They will ^probably^ [illegible] ^are not^ authorized to purchase and distribute other Books than the Bible— but the Individual members will thereby have an opportunity of subscribing for the one in question—

It is desireable that American Editions of such interesting Books may meet with general Encouragement, and that the Prices could be such as would tend to excite [illegible] than express ^tend to stimulate^ the Deire of obtaining them—

Be pleased to add my name to your List of Subscribers for one copy ^two Copies^ neatly bound— My Son at New York will recieve & pay for them. With the best Wishes for the Success of this undertaking I am Gentn. Sir Your obt Servt.