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or shall be on my return to Chester, for which place I am just setting 

 off, via Annapolis. I say no more about the Litany. Dr. West, etc., 

 and some more clergy, Mr. Cutting in particular, who have come here 

 since our Convention adjourned, and who are now with me, all concur 

 in this letter, and that no alterations be made respecting the use of the 

 Litany, which they all say must continue a necessary part of the Morning 

 Service, unless dispensed with by any minister in his discretion, for 

 want of health, shortness of time, such as riding ten or twelve miles to 

 read prayers and preach twice in the same day. A future Convention 

 may consider further upon the whole, in the mean time we do our duty 

 in letting it remain as agreed upon by the body from which we derive 

 our power as a committee. 



Dr. West and a few more are about raising the money from this State 

 for the book, but wish to have at least one thousand copies for Maryland 

 alone, so that Mr. Hall, if not too late, should be told that four thou- 

 sand copies will be too few. He may venture on five or si.x thousand, 

 if he has paper enough ready. 



Rev. Dr. White to Rev. Dr. Smith. 



Philadelphia, October 29, 1785. 



Dear Sir : I expected to have sent you the third half sheet by this 

 post, but it will be not quite ready. Mr. Hall intends to proceed 

 quicker hereafter. 



We expect the paper this evening ; on receiving the proof-sheets from 

 you (which I suppose will be on Monday), we shall have one sheet 

 ready for the last impression. 



I say the less as I consider it uncertain whether this will reach you in 



Baltimore. Yours, etc., 



Wm. White 

 Rev. Dr. Smith. 



Dr. Smith to Dr. White. 



Chester, October 30, 17S5. 



I have just got back to Chester from Baltimore by the way of Annap- 

 olis, which last place I left yesterday afternoon. By the date you will 

 ]>erceive that I write on Sunday, a rainy morning, service put off till 

 the afternoon. As soon as service is over, I must go to Dorset, to 

 attend the baptism of my grandson, and bring Mrs. Smith home, who 

 has been waiting for me more than a week past. My present letter will 

 therefore be short ; nor is there occasion for a long one. Mr. Bryson 

 writes me that he delivered to you my letter from Chester by last week's 

 post. To both your letters which I received at Baltimore, I left an 

 answer to go by yesterday's post, which I hope you will receive to-mor- 

 row, containing the general sentiments of the clergy of our late Con- 



