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The latter word is used in all the other places and was that approved 

 of by the Convention. 



I am sorry I made it necessary for you to write so much about the 

 Litany; it is fixed to your mind and I am satisfied. 



I shall do all you desire in respect to advertising, etc., except that it 

 cannot be in this day's paper, which came to my house before your 

 letter. 



What you propose respecting the letter to the bishops is too late ; or 

 I should not object to the alteration. The original is gone by Willet, 

 and I suppose the other copy goes to-day from New York by the 

 packet, and will probably (as the packets sail fast) be delivered before 

 any subsequent letter can reach England. I will send you another 

 copy, but cannot transcribe it for this day's post. 



I am, in haste, 



Yours, etc., 



W. White. 

 Communion Service. 



Quaere, the insertion in the rubric before the exhortation, the words 

 "or so much thereof as he may think convenient." I have taken the 

 liberty but can easily expunge. 



QuEere, the leaving out these words in the rubric before the collect 

 "so that the ordinary, etc." Probably it will be thought the ordinary 

 need have nothing to do, without complaint from the person forbidden. 



In the sentences, quaere the propriety of inserting those which relate 

 to the support of the ministers of the gospel, it is expressly said the 

 money shall be given to the poor. 



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



Philadelphia, November 16, 1785. 

 Dear Sir : After you left me, I thought it best to continue the 

 consideration of the subject which had been before us. Accord- 

 ingly I corrected, in the way of private memorandum, to the end 

 of the Psalms. Afterwards, finding that the Psalms contained 2,498 

 verses, and that they would be reduced about one-third by our 

 review, I made my division ; in which I have taken care to make the 

 portions as equal as the analogy of the subjects, and sometimes the 

 extraordinary length of single Psalms permitted. In some places I 

 have omitted a few verses of what we had retained, as not suiting the 

 preceding and following. I send you the fruit of my labor, hoping you 

 will review it and send me such alterations as may occur to you ; which 

 you may easily do (as I have with me a copy) by merely alluding to my 

 subdivisions. I will then fairly fix the book, pasting from an old Bible 

 huch verses as we prefer of that translation. 



