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reading in the Appendix to the first Volume of M r 

 Sparks' Collection of D r Franklin's Works an ac- 

 count of the two Societies by the union of which our 

 Association was formed in 1769, and finding in it 

 several errors of sufficient Importance to correct in a 

 formal communication to our Fellow Members. 



Every paper from our excellent & learned friend 

 must be of great interest, and I am delighted to find 

 that he is again induced to take his pen to give us 

 the result of his research, the collections of tradi- 

 tion, and his own recollections of the early history of 

 our Society, to which his learning has added so much 

 lustre, and which I trust will long be honoured by his 

 name as President. 



I have not seen this manuscript which is to be read 

 at an adjourned meeting of the Society; and it may 

 appear unnecessary for me to add any thing to a 

 Communication which may well be supposed to con- 

 tain all the facts extant upon the subject and even 



my motives in presenting them at once rather than give them the 

 appearance of any contradiction or criticism of his account of our 

 Early History. 



As my communication embraces sketches of three Associations 

 existing before 1769 when an union of two of them formed our 

 present Society and as I must necessarily run over the same ground 

 described by our learned President, you may think it best and have 

 my permission to omit any part of my paper in reading' it to our. 

 fellow members. 



With the highest Esteem 



I am truly yr. friend 



J. FRANCIS FISHER. 



June 26 th 1840. 



