LETTEUS. 



TO HIS BROTHER XEVILLE. 



I^ottingliam, fe'ei.ien;ber 1799. 

 Dear Brother, 



In consequence of jour repeate<3 solicitations, I now 

 sit down to write to you, although I never received an 

 answer to the last letter which I wrote, nearly six months 

 ago ; "but as I never heard you mention it in any of my 

 mother's letters, I am induced to think it has miscarried, 

 or heen mislaid in your office. 



It is now nearly four months since I entered into ]Mr 

 Coldham's office, and it is wiih pleasure I can assi're you 

 that I never yet found anything disagreeable, but, on 

 the contrary, every thing I do seems a pleasure to me, 

 and for a rerj obvious reason ; — it is a business which 

 I like— a business which I chose before all others ; and 

 I have two good-tempered, easy masters, but who will, 

 nevertheless, see that their business is done in a neat 

 and proper manner. The study of the law is well known 

 to be a dry, diiTcult task, and requires a com.prehensive, 

 good understanding; and I hope you will allow me 

 (without charging me with egotisu) to have a tolerable 

 one ; and I trust, with perseverance, and a very large 

 law library to refer to, I shall be able to accomplish the 

 study of so much of the laws of England, and cur sys- 

 tem of jurisprudence, in less than five years, as to enable 

 n^e to be a country attorney ; and then, as I shall have 

 two more years to serve, I hope I shall attain so m.uch 



