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I could wish wee had yoiirc I )ioj)h;uit us \\hirh - 

 the prcsse before my depart lire tVoiu yon. Thoe ni! 

 algebra (though fe\\ ) which you ^;ivc nice and < lia\r 



made nice al)lc to doc many pretty quest imis. I cutcud to 

 reade no authour of that subject uutill I may l>c so happir to 

 PCade Something of VOUT8. Sir, if there bee anything \\h- 

 l might serve you, I desire you to use 



Your thankfull friend & humble servant, 



WIMJAM 1': i i ^ . 



HENRY POWER TO SIR THOMAS BROWNE. 



[MS. Sloan. Brit. Mus. No. 3418, fol. 94.] 



Ifjillif:i\, .June 13th, 1646. 



Right Worshipfull, I could not overslippe those kind 

 respects, and faire expressions you pleasM to shew towards 

 me in Mr. Smith's letter, without the returne of a few gratu- 

 latory lines. The presentment whereof I cannot count a 

 piece of presumption, since you layd me the foundation to 

 worke upon. I cannott but really thanke you for the com- 

 munication of your opinion ; I shall trace your directions, by 

 which meanes I question not but I shall attaine to the utmost 

 of my desires. My yeers in the University are whole up to a 

 midle bachelaur-shippe, which height of a graduate I am 

 sure ought to speake him indefective in any part of philo- 

 sophy. Our second yeere of sophistry is always taken up in 

 physicall contemplation (without perfect knowledge whereof 

 no cleere passage is granted to any in the commencement 

 house), and I hope no materiall piece then passed my eie, an 

 extract whereof is not remanent in my present selfe. Yet I 

 shall (submitting to your maturer judgment) review the 

 whole body of philosophy, especially naturall. The plcasant- 

 nesse of which science (had not your desires concurred) might 

 have re-invited me to that study. I intended to have scene 

 Cambridge a moneth since: but some intervening accidents 

 still quas'd my jorney: and now you know that supernatnrall 

 cause which prolongs my stay here. I hope the lieuvynesse 

 of that hand will shortly be removed, and our colled <re re- 

 pupiU'd, and then (God willing) I will increase the number. 

 I shall waite there of your instructions: what physicall in- 

 stitutions you please to appoint, I question not but the 

 University affords; and I shall be ready to make u> 

 and of each opportunity the weeke atlords, v\henn I may 



