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the hymn on this account. I will this week if possible, look further at 

 tlie calendar, but do not delay anything on that account. I know I shall 



approve what you have done, as will the not exactly within 



the letter of our authority. 



N. B. — The first lesson for the first Sunday in Lent, on reading it, 

 appeared to hurt me in some parts the Sunday before last. It is aft in- 

 structive lesson on the whole, if we could leave out part of a chapter, 

 or pass over verses, viz., where Lot offers his virgin daiigiitcrs to the men 

 to do with them as they pleased. If the calendar is in proof, pray 

 send it, but still I beg no stop on my account. 



I must conclude hastily and am as ever, 



Yours, 



Wm. Smith. 



P. S. — My letters have been as much scrawled in haste as yours; but 

 both of us may review and correct any hasty escapes of the pen, etc. 



Bev. Dr. V\lhik to Rev. Dr. Smith. 



Philadelphia, ^^a^ch 15th, 1786. 



To the best of my recollection the inclosed are the proper continua- 

 tion of the sheets: if not, and there be a chasm, you will inform me 

 and I will supply it by next post. ^ 



Besides these, I have corrected two proof-sheets for the press, so that 

 I expect we shall have the hymns fully composed some time to-morrow. 



Then going backwards from the Morning Prayer, we have a form 

 composed containing the tables for finding the holy days. Two more 

 forms will be taken up with the Tables of Feasts and Fasts, of proper 

 lessons, and of the lessons according to the calendar. The preface will 

 occupy another form, besides part of it being thrown forward to be on 

 the same form or part of form with the Title Page. In short, by this 

 day week, I hope to have the whole composed: which being done, they 

 may finish at their leisure the press work of these few remaining forms, 

 only striking off some for the bookbinder to begin. 



There is nothing you mention as you wish (in yours of this day) con- 

 cerning the calendar, but what is prepared agreeably to it. I should 

 not have troubled you further on this subject, but that I understood 

 what you had before written, as applying to the proper lessons only. 

 But the chapter you mention, I have thought best to omit wholly. 



I am sorry for the typographical errors and hope you will perform 

 your promise of going over the whole book. Such slips will easier 

 attract your eye than mine, which has already run over these sheets, 

 both in the preparation and in the execution. 



I am yours, etc. , 



Wm. White. 

 I>jt. Smith, 



