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A COPY OF A LETTER ANENT A
PROJECT, FOR ERECTING A
LIBRARY
IN EVERY PRESBYTRY, OR AT LEAST
COUNTY, IN THE HIGHLANDS

YOU may remember, That I had some Discourse with you, when I was in Scotland; About Libraries for the Highlands, at which time also I shewed you a Schem, about ordering the Libraries. Since that time, I have not been unmindful, of what then I only in general hinted at. My Bodily distempers, together with the small hopes I had, of any great success, hindred me from setting on foot this design; which now at last I have ventured upon.