Letters discuss family news, elections, church appointments and preferments, dinners and visits, and his health. The letter of 1818 Jul 12 contains his opinion of Mrs. Siddons as "a conversable domestic personage." The letter of 1823 Dec 3 desc...
Lengthy letter describing his own thwarted attempt to observe the solar eclipse of 1724 and discussing the observations of other scientists, including William Whiston and Edmund Halley. Also sending "a piece of Archimedes" (not present). Accomp...