Dear Papa

Sunday 15 th Febr y.

1761.

I send you inclosed my Translation as I promised you and shall

continue it every Week and send it you this day as being the last of the

Week, for I think I need have at least a whole Week to do

it in, as I am got to a very hard part, and deeply immersed in

Philosophy; for a proof which You need only read the Original at Your

leisure before You read my Translation, and if you get to a hard

passage, you may then look in for information, or to see whether I have

rendered it right. You see I have wrote the greatest part very small,

upon consideration that if I was to write as I commonly do, it would

be so large, that the Expence would be much greater, than I have

made it by this means. tho' I say it is difficult, and all that, do not

imagine that I desire to have any of it take off, or that I shall be

unwilling to keep to my contract, for if it was 3 times as much I

would do it, as I promised I would, and you would like it: I

flatter myself You will think I have hit off some of

the difficult parts not unhappily, and be convinced that what I say is not

out of mere Idleness, and dislike of the Business I am about. I expect to

begin Logic to morrow together with 4 more of us, and

with that, together with my Translation, I think I

shall have employment enough: One thing I forgot to desire is, that You

would not make any Alterations in my Translation except there be any

manifest mistakes in the use of the particles &c,&c. for there may

be various Sections, and what is in my book, (which I should have told you,

I found was one of the loose volumes of Tully which you sent me)

may be different in Yours. I can add no more at

present, as I am just going to drink in Company with an old Schoolfellow,

who is come to see one of my intimate