516 Mr. T. S. Davies on Geometry and Geometers. 



English and only 250 Latin. I think 500 Latin may be ventured 

 upon, and shall print so many if you advise me. 



I shall take your advice in making no apology. [In reference to the 

 delay, as proposed in the preceding letter.] You did write to me 

 formerly * what you now repeat about the price of the Cuts in Mr. 

 Simpson's books ; and I will gladly pay 1 5 d for mine and furnish the 

 boxwood too; and even for some larger ones would pay 18 d , but I 

 am afraid they will insist on a greater price, in which case I design 

 to refer the matter to such as you who knows the affair, for certainly 

 they ought to take no more here than at London. 



" I am obliged to you for sending the Proposals to Mons r . Clairault, 

 I heard from Mr. Ruat that he, or Mons r . Monier was to give an 

 account of them in the Paris Journal, but have heard nothing since 

 about it. 



" I wish you could find some way of sending me Mr. Landen's 

 Lucubrations as soon as may be. I am affectionately 



" Dear Sir, Your obedient humble Servant, 



" Rob: Simson." 



Simson appears from the next letter of the series to have 

 determined upon keeping back the English copy till the Latin 

 one was printed. The English had been finished, except 

 title-page and preface, three weeks before ; but he did not ex- 

 pect the Latin to be printed off before November. Only three 

 sheets of the Latin were printed at this date ; viz. — 



"Glasgow, 29th March 1756. 



" Dear. Sir, 



* * * * 



and I return you hearty thanks for your care in choosing it [paper 

 for the work] and sending it off in time, and that you have been 'so 

 good as to give me credit for the above Sum [£41 1 6s. 6d.~\ which 

 I hereby engage to pay at the time it becomes due, and to relieve 

 you from all hazard in giving me Credit. 



" I know you have little time to spare in writing letters to such 

 as I am, but intreat when you get a little leisure you will give me 

 some mathematical news. Pray let me know something about a 

 Book I see advertised last week, Geometry made easie &c. by John 

 Lodge Cowley. If it be well done it will be four times a better 

 pennyworth than the book I am printing, because it contains twice 

 as much and is twice as cheap. * * * 



" I know not whether either Mr. Ruat or you have gotten one 

 Subscription during this Session of Parliament. * * 



* If Nourse gave the information in consequence of a request from Sim- 

 son, it must have been made in the letter of Feb. 5, 1753, for it does not 

 occur in any of this series before me; nor is there the least indication of 

 any other letter being missing from the correspondence. 



